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Surinamese Maroons (also Marrons, Businenge or Bushinengue, meaning black people of the forest) are the descendants of enslaved Africans that escaped from the plantations and settled in the inland of Suriname (Dutch Guiana). The Surinamese Maroon culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of cultural heritage outside of Africa.
Afro-Surinamese are the inhabitants of Suriname of mostly West African and Central African ancestry. They are descended from enslaved Africans brought to work on sugar plantations. Many of them escaped the plantations and formed independent settlements together, becoming known as Maroons and Bushinengue. They maintained vestiges of African ...
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ways. The general impression people have is that Maroons lived in total isola-tion in Suriname’s interior until quite recently, about one or two generations ago, but this must now be largely discounted as a myth. This is certainly true in the case of Maroon men.1 Women, on the other hand, remained comparatively
This picture depicts. African Maroon or Black Maroon societies are historically known to have existed throughout the Americas: from the Carolina islands of the U.S. to the Florida peninsula of the United States, to the mountains of Jamaica into the Suriname (fka Dutch Guiana) jungles. Maroon communities also existed in Brazil and Mexico .
The historiography of the Maroons seems to have started in the late eighteenth century, possibly influenced by the abolitionist movements, which were emerging around that time, especially in Britain. In 1803, for example, Robert C. Dallas’s History of the Maroons appeared.
- Marcel van der Linden
- 2015
The Maroons are descendants of Africans who fled the colonial Dutch forced labour plantations in Suriname and established independent communities in the interior rainforests. They have retained a distinctive identity based on their West African origins. Maroons are organized as six main groups which can be categorized as two branches based on ...
Today, six Maroon groups, totaling around 65,000 live in Suriname: the Djuka, the Saramaka, the Matawai, the Aluku, the Paramaka and the Kwinti. The other black subgroup, the Creoles, are mainly descendants of slaves who did not escape from the plantations, along with other Surinamese people of mixed racial origin. Political Background
