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Surinamese Maroons (also Marrons, Businenge or Bushinengue, meaning black people of the forest) are the descendants of enslaved Africans that escaped from the plantations and settled in the inland of Suriname.
11 Αυγ 2020 · Maroonage has been an important aspect of the history of slavery in Suriname. Maroons liberated themselves and conquered a more or less autonomous place beyond the borders of colonial...
24 Μαρ 2020 · A gruesome low was the 1986 mass murder of at least 39 innocent civilians – men, women and children – in the Maroon village of Moiwana by Bouterse’s troops. The perpetrators have never been punished.
9 Οκτ 2015 · The Maroons appear to have adopted European stereotypes as well: in 1759, in the course of peace negotiations to end the regular cycles of attacks and retaliations between the Maroons and
21 Οκτ 2024 · At its apex, it was the home and refuge of some 20,000 African men, women, and children who had managed to escape the dreadful experience of plantation life. Its most famous and last leader was Zumbi dos Palmares, who was born in freedom in Quilombo dos Palmares.
Below I will start with a brief general overview of the history of the Surinamese Maroons. I will then summarize the highlights from the two books, quoting fairly extensively, because the books are in Dutch and therefore inaccessible to an international readership.
Maroons are descendants of Africans who fled enslavement on the colonial Dutch plantations in Suriname and established independent communities in the interior rainforests. They have retained a distinctive identity based on their ancestors’ West African origins.
