The Cimaroons (also Cimarrones or Cimarrons) were Africans who had escaped slavery and lived in the forests and mountains of the Caribbean and South America. Sir Francis Drake attacked Spanish ships in the 1570s and often enlisted Cimarrones as allies against their former masters. By the 1770s the English-speaking slave-masters had changed the word to Maroon, though both forms still exist. A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Slavery is a condition in which one person, known as a slave, is under the control of another. ... Central America and the Caribbean (detailed pdf map) The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Sir Francis Drake, c. ... Significant Events and Trends Transition from the Muromachi to the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan Categories: 1570s ... Events and Trends For more events, see 18th century United States Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress (July 4, 1776). ...
Cimarrone is the Spanish word for wild; the North American tribe Seminole also derive their name from Cimarrone, though they were not from Africa. Far from being a word of insult, Cimarron implies defiance and love of freedom.
"Rose of Cimmaron" was an album by Poco. Emmylou Harris recorded one of the songs on her album "Cimarron".
The Cimaroon perceiving this, told him, that it was night when he was sent away, so that our Captain could not send any letter, but yet with the point of his knife, he wrote something upon the toothpick, “which,” he said, “should be sufficient to gain credit to the messenger.”
The Cimaroons being demanded also their opinion (for that they were experienced in the particularities of all the towns thereabouts, as in which some or other of them had served), declared that “by Veragua, Signior P
Therefore using our Cimaroons most courteously, dismissing those that were desirous to their wives, with such gifts and favours as were most pleasing, and entertaining those still aboard his ship, which were contended to abide with the company remaining; the pinnaces departed as we determined: the Minion to the West, the Bear to the East.
We were in all forty-eight, of which eighteen only were English; the rest were Cimaroons, which beside their arms, bare every one of them, a great quantity of victuals and provision, supplying our want of carriage in so long a march, so that we were not troubled with anything but our furniture.
As soon as we came to the place where we intended to lodge, the Cimaroons, presently laying down their burdens, fell to cutting of forks or posts, and poles or rafters, and palmito boughs, or plantain leaves; and with great speed set up to the number of six houses.
Four of those Cimaroons that best knew the ways, went about a mile distance before us, breaking boughs as they went, to be a direction to those that followed; but with great silence, which they also required us to keep.
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