Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
Maroons - Paper

Maroons

Throughout the Americas, African slaves would escape from the plantations on which they were forced to work. These people known to the Spanish as Cimarrones from the Spanish word "maron," meaning fierce and from the Spanish term for wild cattle. To the French they were known as Marrons, a term anglicized later to "”: the name they are referred to today.
originated in Hispanola, and would runaway from their slave owners and to the mountainous terrain of most of the West Indian islands, with its forests, hidden passes, and ravines, was ideal as slave hideouts from which slaves could engage in guerilla warfare if attacked. Intermarrying with Arawak woman and allying with the Indian against ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

were numerous and made a refuge for slaves escaping from the estates. The military were posted in these territories and were provided with dogs to catch raiders who tried to slip through the defenses of the estates. The disturbed the peace but did not directly affect estate discipline. There were rebellions on the estates but they were punished by such cruel deaths, burning, hanging and breaking on the wheel that it was sometime before they spread. There were twelve slave rebellions during the eighteenth century in Jamaica; one in 1760 spread to several estates, and sixty Europeans and four hundred Negroes were killed before order was restored. Even so, there was no great retaliation on the part of the slaves when it is recalled that they greatly outnumbered the Europeans on all estates and in all islands. It can only be concluded that the system of arbitrary discipline, if not outright viciousness, succeeded in quelling the spirit of most slaves who, knowing their lack of ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.

Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE:

APA
MLA
Chicago
Turabian

Maroons. (2004, May 25). Retrieved January 10, 2026, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Maroons/8421

"Maroons." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 25 May. 2004. Web. 10 Jan. 2026. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Maroons/8421>

"Maroons." Essayworld.com. May 25, 2004. Accessed January 10, 2026. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Maroons/8421.

JOIN NOW

Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays

PAPER DETAILS

Added: 5/25/2004 10:35:40 PM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1104
Pages: 5

Save |

Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS

Save and find your favorite essays easier