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" ... dwellers, from the word comia, meaning mountain top, for they were first called Cimarons, later shortened to marons, then maroons. The "labyrinthine valleys and cockpits offered a refuge to the runaways, who found a sufficient support by clearing... "
The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: Mexico, Central America, West Indies - Page 419
by Elisée Reclus - 1891
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The Negro from Africa to America

Willis Duke Weatherford - African Americans - 1924 - 498 pages
...who found a sufficient support by clearing the forests, planting yams, and hunting the wild boar." "Thanks to their knowledge of the locality and to...their secret intercourse with the plantation Negroes." 85 A constant warfare was kept up between the planters and these maroons and the whites lived in constant...
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