Part one of term paper
Throughout the Americas, African slaves would escape from the plantations on which they were forced to work. These people known to the Spanish as Cimarrones from the Spanish word "maron," meaning fierce and from the Spanish term for wild cattle. To the French they were known as Marrons, a term anglicized later to "”: the name they are refer ...

Part two of term paper
... with the Indian against the Spaniards was quite common among the early years. After these first escapes, Spaniards seemed to have a constant problem until the mid 1800s. This early history of the in Hispanola both established and patterned the settlements in Jamaica and Suriname and the response of the authorities to them. The Jamaican in particular were a community to be reckoned and bargained with and are believed to have come into existence around 1655 with the capture of Jamaica's capital S ...