The word "maroons" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to people of African descent who escaped from slavery and formed independent communities, often in remote areas.
Example: "The maroons established a thriving society in the mountains, preserving their culture and traditions."
Alternatives: "Runaway slaves" or "Fugitive slaves."
And here come the Maroons.
The latest hit is "La Ferme Célébrités", a reality-TV show that maroons 14 C-list celebrities on a Provençal farm, with neither running water nor electricity.
Following "The Descendants", a knockabout Hawaii-set comedy starring Mr Clooney, "Nebraska" is a modest, wistful indie film which maroons its characters in the unglamorous Midwest.
The maroons were undaunted.
These paintings were virtual monochromes of darkly glowing browns, maroons, reds, and blacks.
In Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Suriname (the former Dutch Guiana), Cuba, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Guyana, Dominica, Panama, Colombia, and Mexico and from the Amazon River Basin to the southern United States, primarily Florida and the Carolinas, there are well-known domiciles of the maroons.
There are divergent accounts as to the earliest maroons, with some even indicating that the first maroon was a solitary African who escaped from the first slave ship to dock in the Americas in 1502, just 10 years after Columbus's arrival.
Before being captured and publicly executed by the French in 1758, he and his army killed up to 6,000 white people during what the maroons consider his divinely inspired reign.
Most notable are the Saramacca, the Surinamese maroons, who have singularly managed to remain politically and culturally viable and self-controlled from 1690 to the present.
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, comprising Le Morne Mountain and most of its foothills, was a place of refuge during the 18th and early 19th centuries for many escaped slaves, known as maroons.
