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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 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
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Feb 22, 2024 · Deep in the Amazon rainforest in Suriname, an unknown route of trails, creeks, and rivers was used by the Maroons, a community of enslaved Africans, to escape to a victorious freedom. They...
Dec 14, 2020 · The author, based on a wide range of foreign sources and research, carries out a historical and ethnographic review of the origin and active phase of the formation of the ethnosocial group of Surinamese Maroons, seeks to show the features of the socio-cultural environment, as well as the contradictions between Maroons, Indians and Europeans.
- Andrey A. Boltaevskiy
- 2020
101. Maroons of Suriname, with over 300 years of independent history, repre-sent the most highly developed independent societies and cultures in the history of Africans in the Americas. Vestiges of Maroon society hold on ten-uously in Jamaica.
Aug 11, 2020 · Home. South America. Geoscience. Suriname. ChapterPDF Available. Suriname Maroons. A History of Intrusions into their Territories. August 2020. In book: Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions....
Suriname, 1955. Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.
