🌍ap world history: modern review

Maroon societies

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Communities established by enslaved persons who escaped and formed independent settlements in the Caribbean and Brazil, representing organized resistance to colonial slavery.

AP course connection

Topic 4.6: 4.6 Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750

Unit 4