American Maroon

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Between 1986 and 1992, [99] the Surinamese Interior War was waged by the Jungle Commando, a guerrilla group fighting for the rights of the maroon minority, against the military dictatorship of Dési Bouterse. Accompong's autonomy was ratified by the government of Jamaica when the island gained independence in 1962.

Individual groups of maroons often allied themselves with the local indigenous tribes and occasionally assimilated into these populations. American Maroon is a groundbreaking documentary film about the Foundational Black American rebel fighters who freed themselves during formal slavery in America. Quilombo dos Palmares was a self-sustaining community of escaped slaves from the Portuguese settlements in Brazil, "a region perhaps the size of Portugal in the hinterland of Bahia".Even though colonial governments were in a perpetual state of conflict with the maroon communities, individuals in the colonial system traded goods and services with them. In the 1790s, about 600 Jamaican Maroons were deported to British settlements in Nova Scotia, where American slaves who had escaped from the United States were also resettled.

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In 1745, the colonial authorities defeated Castillo, and over 200 African and Indian runaways surrendered.

Later these people, known as the Cimarrón, assisted Sir Francis Drake in fighting against the Spanish.Eventually, the Spanish agreed to peace terms with the palenque of San Basilio, and in 1772, this community of maroons was included within the Mahates district, as long they no longer accepted any further runaways.

The palenque of Bumba was so well organised that they even sent maroons in small boats to Jamaica and Santo Domingo to trade.

They sometimes developed Creole languages by mixing European tongues with their original African languages. Similar maroon communities developed on islands across the Caribbean, such as those of the Garifuna people on Saint Vincent.