Meanings
alternative marronage
- uncountableThe fact or state of being a maroon.
Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.
2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 842 more examples
Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.
1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 64Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.
1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194
Origin
- Frenchmarronnage
- Englishmaroonage
From maroon + -age, often as a calque of French marronnage.
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