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St. Malo Maroon Colony


Jean Saint Malo: The Man, Maroon, & Martyr - NOIR 'N NOLA

Maroon communities were bands of fugitive slaves that established their own societies and were common along the slave colonies. These ...

San Malo Maroons | New Orleans Historical

The San Malo Maroons have the most remarkable and extensively documented history of runaway slave communities in the Western Hemisphere.

St. Malo Maroon Colony - A People's Guide

St. Malo became the Spanish colony's most notorious maroon, or cimarrón, after establishing a territory for fugitive slaves at Ville Gaillarde.

Jean Saint Malo - Wikipedia

Saint Malo and his band escaped to a marshy area near Lake Borgne, with weapons obtained from free people of color and plantation enslaved. The maroons lived in ...

Juan San Maló - 64 Parishes

Juan San Maló (Jean St. Malo) was the leader of a group of self-liberated formerly enslaved people who founded their own maroon resistance community.

The Legend of Jean Saint Malo - Chris Dier

The Spanish colonial government repeatedly ordered unsuccessful raids to capture the fugitive maroon San Malo. He and his maroons, usually ...

Saint Maló remembered - LSU Scholarly Repository

Also: Saint Maló, Saint. Marron, Saint Maroon. the religion – term used by members of the African-American religion which developed in New Orleans to refer to ...

San Malo's Maroons and Manilamen in Louisiana: Part One

We do know that San Malo was last owned by Karl Friedrich D'Arensbourg, a Swiss-born colonial official along the German Coast of the Mississippi ...

Download SAN MALÓ REMEMBERED

During the Spanish colonial governorship of Don Esteban Miró, the runaway slave known as Juan San Maló established a community of maroons, runaway slaves, who ...

The First Asian American Settlement Was Established by Filipino ...

Saint Malo was first established as a fishing village along the shores of Lake Borgne in Louisiana in the 18th century and continued to flourish ...

Juan San Maló

During the Spanish colonial governorship of Don Esteban Miró, the runaway slave known as Juan San Maló established a community of (9) maroons, runaway slaves, ...

The Maroons of Louisiana ↓ One of... - Whitney Plantation - Facebook

#LouisianaHistory : St. Malo Maroon community from an 1883 edition of Harper's Weekly. Courtesy of @visit_hnoc. May be an image of text.

More Than A Runaway: Maroons In Louisiana - WWNO

Image of the St. Malo Maroon community from an 1883 edition of Harper's Weekly. You live in a cave, six feet underground.

Pasajs | Passages For San Malo | South Writ Large

Juan San Malo, a maroon leader during the late 1700s, must have come in through the pasaj, or passage, of the bayou.

Maroon Colonies and New Orleans Neutral Grounds

... colonial official. This reality made it easier for maroons like St. Malo to move between plantation, marshland, and city without arousing suspicion. These ...

Living Freedom Through the Maroon Landscape - Places Journal

Juan Malò — malo meaning bad — is a common first name/surname combination in Spanish. … Thus he might have been Jean Malo (or Jean St. Malo). … No physical ...

Whitney Plantation - Facebook

However, in 1784, after years of evasion, Saint-Maló was captured, tried, and executed. ... Malo Maroon community from an 1883 edition of Harper's ...

A Land Called Louisiana, part II: Undermining Slavery from the ...

Just seven years after St. Malo's murder, enslaved Africans with the assistance of hundreds-strong guerrilla maroon communities from the mountains began ...

San Malo's Maroons and Manilamen in Louisiana: Part Two

Details are fuzzy on exactly when the site of Saint Malo became inhabited again after the breaking up of its maroon community, ...

Saint Malo, Louisiana - Wikipedia

Located along Bayou Saint Malo, about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the Isleño fishing village of Shell Beach, it was the first permanent settlement of Filipinos and ...