Maroons

The Maroons were people who escaped slavery in the Americas and formed their own settlements away from their oppressors.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry – Database: Maroons
==Maroons in Haiti==
In Saint-Domingue, most of the African slaves fled to the Montagnes Noires, a range of mountains in the central part of western Hispaniola,Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry – Database: Montagnes Noires following the Taíno tribes who had done the same before them, fleeing abuse from the Spanish Empire's colonies. The mountains made it extremely difficult for any surprise attacks from oppressors, and the high altitude was ideal for lookouts.
Their lives were often based on subsistence agriculture and survival hunting, while the warriors among them fought for independence and the freedom of other slaves. To this effect they would terrorize plantation owners and overseers, razing crops, looting and conducting raids on sugar and coffee plantations. The former slave owners retaliated brutally, with the Code Noir on their side: plantation slaves were killed, many of the attackers slaughtered, and the death penalty was a common form of punishment.
Though numerous, they were not the only black population in Saint-Domingue at the time, as the island also included both Freedmen, slaves who were freed legally through emancipation or manumission, and , those who were born free or freed at birth.
Sometime prior to 1735, a Maroon movement in Saint-Domingue was established, led principally by Augustin Dieufort and supported by Bastienne Josèphe. On the years following 1735, the rebellion grew in strength and power aided by Adéwalé, a member of the West Indies Brotherhood of Assassins.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry – A Common Enemy Liberated slaves from both the slave ships and those sugar plantations attacked by the Assassin joined the rebellion,Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry – Laying the First Brick though a confrontation with the Governor of Port-au-Prince, Pierre de Fayet, would put an end to this alliance, with Adéwalé leaving Port-au-Prince after assassinating de Fayet in 1737.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry – De Fayet's Last Stand An attempt at freeing the slaves in Saint-Domingue by poisoning the white colonists led to Maroon leader François Mackandal's execution in 1758.Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – Database: Agaté 
The Maroons and their Assassin allies in Saint-Domingue ultimately managed a successful slave uprising, the only one to result in the founding of a free state after a century of effort and more than one attempt. Starting in 1791, with the ceremony at Bois Caïman led by Dutty Boukman and calling for a major rebellion.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Eseosa's Codex – Entry #5: "Ceremony at Bois Caïman: Bois Caïman, Saint-Domingue, 1791-08-14" By early 1801, Maroon Toussaint Louverture declared himself absolute ruler of the island and freed all slaves.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Eseosa's Codex – Entry #9: "Absolute Ruler of Saint-Domingue: Cap Français, Saint-Domingue, 1801-07-08" Though interference by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, by way of his brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, deposed him,Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Eseosa's Codex – Entry #10: "Leclerc's Expedition: Cap Français, Saint-Domingue, 1802" Louverture's lieutenant Jean-Jacques Dessalines ousted the French from the island, bringing the Revolution to a successful conclusion.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Eseosa's Codex – Entry #12: "What Price Freedom: Davenport Manor, British America, 1804-03-01"
==Maroons in Jamaica==
Antó, an enslaved man in Jamaica escaped with the help of the legendary warrior Kujo. Later, he founded a Maroon community near Kingston, where he ran an Assassin bureau, and established contacts with indigenous traders, who helped coordinate raids on plantations that freed more slaves to join him.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: The Maroon AssassinAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Database: Antó In 1716, the Welsh pirate Edward Kenway helped Antó liberate other Maroons from Templar captivity.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Recruiting Maroons
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
**Freedom Cry
*Assassin's Creed: Rogue 
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates
==References==
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