Definition of "maroonage"

Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.

1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 64

Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194

Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.

2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 84