maroon

Examples

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• In fact, the team's findings support the theory that the Great Dismal Swamp was home to the largest Maroon settlement in all of North America.

• The existence of four or five hundred slaves, in addition to a smaller Maroon contingent, created immense logistical and public relations problems during the war.

  Academic text (2017)

• The process is critical for these maroon sites, which typically have few artifacts.

  Academic text (2011)

• Sayers and others believe that from this time forward, contact between maroons and the outside world increased.

  Academic text (2011)

• Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman should be considered key maroon figures.

  Academic text (2011)

• For instance, in Jamaica in 1740, the British freed maroons and gave them 2,500 acres, as long as they returned future escaped slaves.

  Academic text (2011)

• "The Underground Railroad is lauded, while maroons remain nameless fugitives," Sayers says.

  Academic text (2011)

• Sayers believes the maroons developed a sense of pride and self-containment by resisting the exterior world's values and materialistic culture.

  Academic text (2011)

• Many maroons established free communities in the dense jungles of the Caribbean islands.

• The history of maroons highlights their struggle for freedom and their unique cultures.

Compounds

M

maroon-purple

4.1

A purple color with a red-brown shade

M

maroon-spotted

5.4

Having dark red spots

Surface Forms

Etymology