Maroon (people)
（重定向自Bush Negro）
![Body of Ndyuka Maroon child brought before a shaman, Suriname, 1955](/Images/godic/202501/02/Body_of_Maroon_child_brought_before_medicine_man,_19550640.jpg")
![Maroon village, Suriname River, 1955](/Images/godic/202501/02/Maroon_village,_Suriname_River,_19550640.jpg")
![Maroon men in Suriname, picture taken between 1910–1935](/Images/godic/202501/02/Tropenmuseum_Royal_Tropical_Institute_Objectnumber_10024950_Portret_van_drie_Marron_mannen_en_een0640.jpg")
Maroons (from the Latin American Spanish word cimarrón: "feral animal, fugitive, runaway") were Africans who escaped from slavery in the Americas and formed independent settlements. The term can also be applied to their descendants.