In class today we talked about maroon societies and creole languages in the Caribbean. The maroon societies are communities of runaway slaves. Many of them were short lived but others survived and helped African Traditions. Creolization is the blending of African, European, Amerindian cultural elements into a unique system. This website (above) is really good about explaining more in depth about each of these. There were Maroons in Jamaica during the period of Spanish rule, before the Europeans came in but not a lot is known about them.
posted by Anonymous @ 3/07/2006 12:04:00 PM
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