Maroon communities and escape networks in the Caribbean and Brazil (16th–19th centuries)

1. African slavery expands in Caribbean and Brazil

   Jan 1, 1550Labels: Caribbean colonies, Brazil

   • Britannica
   • Britannica Palmares

2. Runaways begin forming Palmares in Brazil

   Jan 1, 1605Labels: Palmares, Brazil

   • Britannica Palmares
   • GLI Palmares

3. Palmares grows into a multi-settlement polity

   Jan 1, 1630Labels: Palmares, Quilombos

   • Britannica Palmares
   • Wikipedia Palmares

4. Ganga Zumba’s leadership is documented at Palmares

   Jan 1, 1670Labels: Ganga Zumba, Palmares

   • Wikipedia Palmares
   • Britannica Palmares

5. Macaco, Palmares’s main settlement, falls

   Feb 6, 1694Labels: Cerca do, Portuguese forces

   • Fundaj Palmares
   • GLI Palmares

6. Zumbi is killed after continued Palmares resistance

   Nov 20, 1695Labels: Zumbi, Palmares

   • Ag ncia Brasil
   • Wikipedia Zumbi

7. Jamaica’s Leeward Maroons sign peace treaty

   Jan 1, 1739Labels: Leeward Maroons, Cudjoe

   • Britannica Maroons
   • Wikipedia First War

8. Jamaica’s Windward Maroons receive land grant

   Jan 1, 1740Labels: Windward Maroons, Jamaica

   • Britannica Maroons
   • Wikipedia First War

9. Suriname’s Saramaka sign a formal peace treaty

   Sep 19, 1762Labels: Saramaka, Suriname

   • Creolica Treaty

10. Berbice uprising shows scale of anti-slavery war

    Feb 23, 1763Labels: Berbice Rebellion, Dutch Guiana

    • Wikipedia Berbice

11. Boni Wars begin against the Aluku Maroons

    Jan 1, 1768Labels: Aluku, Boni

    • Dutch Archives
    • Wikipedia Aluku

12. Boni is killed, ending a major phase of Aluku war

    Feb 19, 1793Labels: Boni, Aluku

    • Wikipedia Boni

13. Second Maroon War leads to deportation from Jamaica

    Jan 1, 1796Labels: Trelawny Town, Second Maroon

    • Wikipedia Second War
    • Britannica Maroons

14. Britain bans its transatlantic slave trade

    Mar 25, 1807Labels: Britain, Slave Trade

    • Wikipedia 1807 Act

15. Brazil criminalizes the Atlantic slave trade

    Jan 1, 1850Labels: Brazil, Queir s

    • Britannica Queiroz