Also known as: Saramacca, Saramakas, Saramaka people
Last updated: April 23, 2026
First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People treats the Saramaka not simply as survivors of escape but as a people formed through war, migration, and remembered negotiation. Their eighteenth-century history runs from plantation flight and riverine settlement through prolonged armed struggle and finally to the peace that later generations remembered as the dividing line between slavery and freedom.
Cocks Crow Discourse
First Time Saramaka
Maroon Treaties
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