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The Maroons are Suriname's bush negroes.

Specifically, the term "bush negroes" refers to escaped African slaves in South America. Another common, synonymous term is "refugee blacks." Whatever the term, the slaves found freedom by escaping from coastal plantations into Suriname's vast interior rain forest. In the interior, the slaves grouped into two main tribes, the eastern and the central, whose membership was defined by cultural heritage and geographic preferences.

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