maroonage

maroonage

English

Alternative forms

• marronage

Etymology

From maroon +‎ -age, often as a calque of French marronnage.

Noun

maroonage (uncountable)

1. The fact or state of being a maroon.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, page 64:

     Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.

   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194:

     Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.

   • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books 2009, page 84:

     Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.