Maroonage

Connected Sites: 6

Maroons (from the Latin American Spanish word cimarrón: "feral animal, fugitive, runaway") were African refugees who escaped from slavery in the Americas and formed independent settlements.

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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Inscribed: 2001
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During The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Some Peripheral Places Were Used As Refuges Or Camps By Maroons. Wiki
Le Morne
Le Morne
Mauritius
Inscribed: 2008
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Testimony To Maroonage Or Resistance To Slavery
Viñales Valley
Inscribed: 1999
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Slaves From Africa Worked On The Crop Fields Here. Also, Escaped Slaves Often Found Refuge In The Caves Of The Valley. The Pan De Azucar Site Contains The Ruins Of The Biggest Hacienda, Where Slaves Were Taught Different Trades.
Pitons of Reunion
Inscribed: 2010
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... From 1807 With Sugar Plantations For Which Labor Came From Africa, Madagascar, India, Malaya And China, Soon Relegated To The Status Of Slaves. The Cirque De Cilaos Was Cultivated For Nearly 100 Years By Escaped Slaves Known As Marrons Whose Leaders Names Are Commemorated In The Landscape Of The Cirques (Unep-Wcmc)
Blue and John Crow Mountains
Inscribed: 2015
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The Region Provided Refuge To Escaped Indigenous Slaves, The Traces Of Which Can Be Seen At Maroon Archaeological Sites Such As Hiding-Places And A Network Of Trails. The ‘Windward Maroons’ Of The Blue Mountains Region Were One Of Two Maroon Strongholds In Jamaica.
Jodensavanne
Inscribed: 2023
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Located Amidst Indigenous Territory, The Settlements Were Inhabited, Owned, And Governed By Jews Who Lived There Together With Free And Enslaved Persons Of African And Indigenous Descent. (Brief Synthesis Ouv)
See Www.Jodensavanne.Org