Maroon

A Maroon (from the Spanish word cimarrón - Kreyol: mawon) refers to a runaway slave.

Escaped slaves
Many maroons took up fighting the colonial powers, such as François Mackandal, Jean-François, Boukman and Romaine-la-Prophetesse. The maroon Padrejean led one of the earliest recorded slave revolts in 1679. Marroons often settled in remote mountain regions, often living together with the remaining natives, the Taíno.

While the maroons in Saint-Domingue lived mainly of subsistence agriculture, they also carried out raids on the slave-holding colonial plantations and mounted defenses against the French colonial authorities to defend their freedom.

Monument in Port-au-Prince
A well known Port-au-Prince statue the Nèg Mawon, by architect and sculptor Albert Mangones was erected in honor of these women and men. This Statue stands adjacent to the Palais National in the Haitian capital.