Grand Marronage

Throughout the eighteenth century, maroon communities existed in the Bahoruco mountains along the Spanish border, in Plymouth and Maniel regions of the south, and in smaller bands throughout the colony's mountainous interior. Though "infinitely less common than the petit marronage" and smaller than Jamaica's or Suriname's maroon societies, these communities represented permanent alternatives to slavery. Their existence forced colonial authorities into repeated expeditions and, at moments, negotiation.