Cimarrón Spirit: Afro-Dominican Maroon Culture

Name: Cimarrón Spirit: Afro-Dominican Maroon Culture
Released: 2015-01-01
Duration: 41 min

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In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island’s Taíno Indians or on their own in mountainous jungles in the remote frontier land of Hispaniola. These people who were known as “cimarrones,” meaning “maroons,” created their own independent communiti...