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Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French marron ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ca. 1791.
A Maroon (from the word marronage or cimarrón) was a runaway slave. Eventually, the terms was generalized to include any slave or any group of slaves that had rebelled or escaped from their owners. Individual groups of Maroons often joined with indigenous tribes. Characteristics of the various culturalThe word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). In general it refers to human activity; different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding, or criteria for valuing, human activity. groups differ widely because of difference in historyHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor, geographyGeography is the scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. The word derives from the Greek words g ("the Earth") and graphein ("to write," as in "to describe"). Geography is also the title of v, African origin, and the culture of Indigenous people throughout the Western hemisphere. Populations of Maroons are found north from the Amazon riverThe Amazon River (occasionally River Amazon Spanish: Rio Amazonas of South America is one of the two longest rivers on Earth, the Nile River of Africa being the other. It has by far the greatest total flow of any river, carrying approximately 56 times as Basin to the American states of FloridaArchaeological finds indicate the first inhabitants of Florida arrived over 12,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. Over the next several thousand years, the inhabitants would create complex societies which built large burial mounds and traded with and North CarolinaNorth Carolina is a southern state in the United States. North Carolina is one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. It is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on th. Maroons played an important role in the histories of BrazilThe history of Brazil begins with the arrival of the first Native Americans, over 8,000 years ago, into the present territory of that nation. By 1500, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast, all parts of those lands, Suriname, and Jamaica. Maroon settlements often possess a clannish, outsider identity.
Slaves began running away into the jungle as soon as slavery was introduced to the Americas. Indigenous tribes provided a new home and community to those separated from their own tribes in Africa. Maroons are an example of successful resistance to slavery.
A name for a Maroon village is a palenque. The palenqueros developed a Creole language mixing Spanish and their African languages. One Maroon Creole language in Suriname is Saramaccan .