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Head to Jamaica to talk about a pair of wars between the Jamaican maroons and the British colonial government.

For listeners who are not familiar with that term,

maroons are Africans and people of African ancestry who escaped enslavement and established communities,

usually in remote and hard to access parts of the Caribbean and some of the Americas.

Sometimes also intermarrying with the local indigenous population.

The term probably comes from the Spanish cemeron for wilder and tamed,

or maybe the French Mahon which meant brown.

And although particularly cemeron was initially used to describe wild animals and escaped livestock,

it's one that maroon communities still in existence today used to describe themselves.

In Jamaica, specifically, the word maroon came into use around 1670.

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