Free Black Community - In the post-revolutionary era, the free blacks remaining in the United States sought greater liberty for themselves and enslaved African Americans.
Maroon Societies - Runaway slaves that blended with free-born Africans.
Runaway slaves known as “maroons” established independent settlements in remote areas of Jamaica—pictured here in the early 1900s—and throughout the Americas. Some communities survived for centuries. (©Royal Geographical Society, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library)