As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American ... and destroy the maroon village. Although six maroons were killed and others wounded, most of the people fled into the South ...

A: When the American Revolution began, maroon communities became larger and ... Sometimes they would even go into these plantations and take people back with them, sometimes even by force.

Tucked into remote pockets, Brazil’s maroon people, known as Quilombolas ... For every African who landed in British North America, 12 arrived in Brazil, most of them destined for gold mines ...