Maroon Settlements

Maroon settlements were the organized communities built by fugitives from Saint-Domingue's plantation system in mountain, forest, and border zones. The best-known include Le Maniel in the south, the Platons complex, and the communities in the Bahoruco Mountains along the Spanish frontier. These were not temporary hideouts but socially organized territories with dwellings, cultivated land, families, and leadership — evidence of collective resistance preceding and shaping the revolution.