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11. See Hall (1992, 124–38); Esteban Deive (1989, 76, 80); Gautier (1985, 23–31); Romero
Jaramillo (1997, 171).
Chapter 4
1. See also Aguirre (1993, 256).
2. La Rosa Corzo (2003, 21, 73) makes the astounding statement that Maroon settlements
in Cuba carried out only infrequent depredations against the plantations.
However, he later demonstrates that this was not the case, especially in the first
half of the nineteenth century when such depredations were common (ibid., 98,
117–67).
3. Since 125 of them were either deserters from the French or born to French deserters,
although led by Santiago, a Maroon from the Spanish side of the border, it was
agreed that the whole group should settle on the French side (Moreau de Saint-
Méry 1979, 140).
4. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1978, 1190), a league varies in
different countries but is usually estimated at about 3 miles. La Rosa Corzo (2003,
262) states that the Spanish league is 2.63 miles.
5. Borrego Plá (1973, 26); Mathieu (1982, 89); Arrázola (1967, 56, 57); Navarrete (2003,
64–69).
6. Information on the Suriname Maroons is taken largely from the following works:
Beet (1984); De Groot (1975); and Hoogbergen (1985, 1990).
7. See Campbell (1990, 27) for the main clauses of these Articles. Campbell (ibid., 26)
refers to them as “the first formal declaration of war against any Maroon group in
Jamaica”, and argues that the conflict that immediately preceded and succeeded the
drafting of the articles should be viewed as the First Maroon War, rather than the
wars of the 1730s that are usually assigned that title.
8. Dallas (1803, 1:27).
9. Patterson (1979, 266, 268, 285); Campbell (1990, 40, 41, 69, 84–85).
10. Reis (1993, 43–44) mentions the break-up of a quilombo along the Prata River in
Brazil after being devastated by a military expedition. There, an originally substantial
group of at least three hundred people lost many of its members through deaths and
capture in the assault, and the rest decided to form small bands of four or five people
to attack Whites and their property. The Maroon group led by Balla in Dominica
suffered a similar fate after a lethal attack on it (Atwood 1971, 249–50).
11. Porter (1932, 323 passim); Blassingame (1979, 211); Krogman (1934, 421–23); Mulroy
(1993, 2, 7–14).
12. Porter (1951, 260–64); Aptheker (1979, 156); Blassingame (1979, 211–12); Mulroy (1993,
14–15).