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Caribbean Slave Revolts, Ft. Saint Andrew

It Could Happen Here

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The Maroon Communities of South America

In jamaica and cuba, marin communities were able to last longer because they had a more mountainous terrain to hide in. In brazil there was the famous maroon community, or cilumbo, known as palmaris, which existed for nearly 100 years. I think there's a lot that we can learn from the different forms of resistance, small and large, that instated people undertook throughout the period of cluna settlement and expansion and enslavement. Elements of their practices could be applied to tidos struggles.

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