Please look at this website, the geolocater has been provided so you can view where some of these maroon communities inhabited.
http://clevelandhistory.org/
Throughout the Americas wherever slavery was a basic institution , slave resistance plagued colonists and colonial administrators. This resistance took a number of forms and was expressed in a variety of ways. Day to day forms of resisting control, slow downs, and sabotage were the most common forms of resistance, while self destruction through suicides, homicides, infanticides, or violent forms of vengeance and retribution. The most common form of slave resistance was flight and joining up with fugitive slave communities known by many names such as mocambos, ladeiras, magotes, quilombos, all better known as Maroon communites.
The topic of slave flight and resistance has been treated as a deceptively simple one, and analyses of it have often been based on a limited set of questions to which common sense answers have been made: Why did slaves flee? To escape slavery. Where were runaway communities located? Far from possible white retaliation. Why did fugitives attack white society? To liberate their fellows and because they hated slavery. Was there a class solidarity among slaves and what kind of societies did fugitive slaves create? An egalitarian society based on African traditions. Was there a difference between different types of marronage? Yes, petite marronage was when slaves went absent for a short period of time.
The Communities involved in this project I wish to examine the aspects of fugitives communities throughout the America’s. Spanish, French, United States, Brazil, Jamaica, and The Guiana’s. The goal is to find patterns in the origins, creations, and internal organization, and destruction of these fugitive communities in order to better understand the slave regime and the way in which Africans responded to it.