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==Reference==
 
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* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawon Mawon]
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* Mawon. (2005, October 1). Wikipedia, ''The Free Encyclopedia''. Retrieved 10:23, December 8, 2005 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mawon&oldid=24515446.
  
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* [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/stdomingue.htm Capturing a Maroon Slave: A Moonlit Battle in the Hills of Saint-Domingue, 1781] - Written by Gaudin, Nippes [[Saint-Domingue]] translation: [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/ John Garrigus].
 
* [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/stdomingue.htm Capturing a Maroon Slave: A Moonlit Battle in the Hills of Saint-Domingue, 1781] - Written by Gaudin, Nippes [[Saint-Domingue]] translation: [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/ John Garrigus].
 
* Nèg Mawon - [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/unknown_maroon.jpg Photo of the statue]
 
* Nèg Mawon - [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/unknown_maroon.jpg Photo of the statue]

Revision as of 03:40, 8 December 2005

A Maroon (from the Spanish word cimarrón - mawon in Kreyol) refers to a runaway slave. Many maroons took up fighting the colonial powers, such as François Mackandal, Jean-François and Boukman. Marroons often settled in remote mountain regions, often living together with the remaining natives.

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.

See also

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