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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]
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* Nèg Mawon - [http://users.ju.edu/jgarrig/unknown_maroon.jpg Photo of the statue] - With the Palais National in the background.

Revision as of 10:33, 18 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.

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