maroon communities were usually displaced. By 1700, maroons had disappeared from the smaller islands. Survival was always difficult, as the maroons had...
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Leeward Maroons in 1739 and the Windward Maroons in 1740, which required them to support the institution of slavery. The importance of the Maroons to the...
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often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result, many have received the nickname "Maroons." The University of Chicago Maroons have used...
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pages with titles beginning with Marooned All pages with titles containing Marooned Maroon (disambiguation) Maroons (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community...
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marked Maroon history. In Suriname six Maroon groups — or tribes — can be distinguished from each other. There are six major groups of Surinamese Maroons, who...
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Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas who formed settlements away from New World chattel slavery. Maroons may also refer to: Maroons FC,...
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uninhabited area Maroons, descendants of enslaved Africans in the Americas who escaped and formed free settlements Maroon (band), a German band Maroon (Barenaked...
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Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island, or more generally (usually in passive voice) to...
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head to Pottsville on Sunday. Since many Maroons players moved back to their NFL teams in 1925, the Maroons recruited several talented players to replace...
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champions). UP Fighting Maroons won their last championship in the NCAA in NCAA Season 5 (1929–1930). After 6 years, UP Fighting Maroons permanently withdrew...
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team. In order to accommodate the Maroons, a new arena was built for them in 1924, the Montreal Forum. The Maroons were a highly competitive team, winning...
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Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Adam Levine, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist...
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team. Baseball Basketball – see: Chicago Maroons men's basketball Cross Country Football – see: Chicago Maroons football Soccer Swimming & Diving Tennis...
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changed to UP Fighting Maroons when the parrot was dropped as the team mascot. The new moniker revived the old (vintage 1920s) name Maroons, and the adjective...
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black slave to flog the two Maroons, and the humiliation provoked outrage in Trelawny Town. For half a century, the Maroons had been hunting runaway slaves...
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organised by the remaining maroons as well as disgruntled slaves. When the Dutch abandoned Dutch Mauritius in 1710 the maroons stayed behind.[citation needed]...
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intended usage of maroons to signal impending fallout. Maroons would be used in groups of three to sound an alarm. "Burnham-On-Sea Lifeboat Maroon Calls". www...
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group, the Leeward Maroons. These Maroons united with a group of Malagasy people who had survived a shipwreck and formed their own maroon community in the...
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league. This is the list of UP Lady Maroons pool of players. The results of the games of the UP Lady Fighting Maroons. UAAP Volleyball Tournament Premier...
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criminals. Maroons are known to have often interacted with enslaved Africans and poor whites to obtain work, food, clothes, and money. Some maroons plundered...
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Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Cudjoe's Town, the largest of the five Jamaican maroon towns who...
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The Chicago Maroons football team represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons, which play in NCAA Division III, have been a...
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Giants three years later. Bo Hanley was named coach of the Maroons. On October 3, 1924, the Maroons played their first game of the season against the Frankford...
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Battle of the Maroons or Battle of Maroons may refer to: Battle of the Maroons (Colombo) - Annual cricket match between Ananda College and Nalanda College...
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The PUP Radicals (Formerly: PUP Mighty Maroons) are the athletic teams of Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The school's teams compete in NAASCU...
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Queensland rugby league team (redirect from Queensland Maroons)
Australia and again the Maroons lost both. New South Wales had won every match between the two states until 1922, when the Maroons, with Cyril Connell playing...
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League (GOJHL). The Maroons were the 1970 Western Ontario Junior A Champions and 1973 Southern Ontario Junior A Champions. The Maroons have won multiple...
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The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about half a kilometer (0.3 miles). The mountains...
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Lateef and the Chief (redirect from Maroons (Hip hop group))
their debut album, Maroons: Ambush. Lateef the Truthspeaker (Lateef Daumont) – rapper Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) – producer Albums Maroons: Ambush (2004)...
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