maroon or Maroon: a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person Wherever Africans were enslaved in the world, there were runaways who escaped permanently and lived in free independent settlements. More @Wikipedia
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