🐍 Ashley dives into some of the origin stories of the people who were marooned along the coast of Guyana and the island now known as Jamaica and tells the harrowing tale of how this community thrived beyond the confines of colonization.

Sources: 

https://longreads.com/2018/10/30/the-masterless-people-pirates-maroons-and-the-struggle-to-live-free/

https://www.libs.uga.edu/reserves/docs/scans/curtis-masterless-people.pdf

https://waynesavage.com/the-maroons-of-jamaica-2/

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/guerilla-warfare-in-eighteenth-century-jamaica/