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Profile The Maroons are descendants of Africans who fled the colonial Dutch forced labour plantations in Suriname and established independent communities in the interior rainforests. They have retained a distinctive identity based on their West African origins.
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Surinamese Maroons are the descendants of enslaved Africans that escaped from the plantations and settled in the inland of Suriname . The Surinamese Maroon culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of cultural heritage outside of Africa. Colonial warfare, land grabs, natural disasters and migration have marked Maroon history. In Suriname six Maroon groups — or tribes — can be.
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Our main goal is to reveal the almost unknown treasure of Surinamese Maroon People. The interior of Suriname carries an intangible heritage, that is unique in the world, and deserves as part of the Surinamese rain forest, to become a UNESCO World Heritage site and as such deserves a prominent place in Afro American Diaspora.
Mapping the traditional lands of the Matawai Maroons in Suriname, one creek at a time Amazon
Maroons in the South American rainforest in Suriname and French Guiana continue to battle encroachment by miners and loggers given concessions by the state—including the building of roads that would intersect their traditional hunting grounds and farmlands.
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Ndyuka man bringing the body of a child before a shaman. Suriname, 1955 Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures [1] such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos .
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Suriname Maroons. Slavery and Abolition, 12 (1), 107-127. Riemer, J. A. (1801). Missions-Reise nach Suriname und Barbice zu einer am Surinam-fluss im dritten Grade der Linie wohnenden Freineger-Nation [Mission trip to Suriname and Barbice to a Freineger nation living on the Surinam River in the third degree of the line]. Zittau and Leipzig.
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The Maroons were descendants of African slaves who managed to escape from the plantations during the colonial era. Instead of succumbing to a life of oppression, they chose to run away and find safety and freedom in the inhospitable interior of Suriname.
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Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname Author Kambel, Ellen-Rose Date Sep 2006 English ( 2894 downloads) View Online This study provides a concise analysis of the current challenges facing Indigenous and Maroon communities in Suriname and provides recommendations for possible Bank support.
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The Maroons of Suriname thus were among the first people in this hemisphere to gain their independence. Ultimately, they became one of the largest and most concentrated groups of descendants of runaway slaves in the world. The Maroons had enjoyed 100 years of freedom before slavery was finally abolished in 1863. For hundreds of years they were.
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Maroon communities in Suriname In the mid-1600s, British, and then Dutch, colonists imported African slaves to work the sugar plantations. Conditions were brutal, and many slaves escaped into the jungle. (The term "maroon," used throughout the New World, is said to come from cimarrón, a Spanish term for runaway slaves.)
Mapping the traditional lands of the Matawai Maroons in Suriname, one creek at a time Amazon
Suriname Maroons. A History of Intrusions into their Territories August 2020 In book: Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions. A Pluralist Perspective (pp.215) Publisher: Africa World Press Authors:.
Maroons In Suriname Maroons And Indigenous People In Suriname The Struggle For Land Rights
Indigenous people and Maroons, descendants of Africans in the Americas who formed settlements away from slavery, and often mixed with Indigenous populations, comprise the main tribal groups of Suriname.
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Saramaka The Saramaka, Saamaka or Saramacca [note 1] are one of six Maroon peoples (formerly called "Bush Negroes") in the Republic of Suriname and one of the Maroon peoples in French Guiana.
Maroons In Suriname Maroons And Indigenous People In Suriname The Struggle For Land Rights
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 (Dutch Guiana). The Surinamese Maroon culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of cultural heritage outside of Africa.
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The daily life of Maroons in the interior of Suriname is unusually rich in artistic activity and aesthetic discussion. The anthropologist Melville Herskovits remarked in 1930 (using a term for the Suriname Maroons that was standard in his day): "Bush Negro art in all its ramifications is, in the final analysis, Bush Negro life."
Maroons and Indigenous people in Suriname the struggle for land rights
Maroons, descendants of African slaves who escaped from plantations in Suriname during the colonial era, have managed to preserve and enrich their cultural traditions over the centuries. Their customs, rituals, and music all reflect their African ancestry and a deep connection to their roots.
