Maroons in the Suriname

Maroons are escaped slaves that formed their own colonies. Maroons were all over South America, Central America, and even some parts of Asia, but I will only focus on the ones in Suriname. They had several issues like white attacks and reproduction (most of the Maroons were males). The reproduction issues lead to a complex friend/enemy relationship with the native Indian tribes (Maroon men often kidnapped Indian women, leading to quite a few wars between the Maroons and the Indians). The life of a Maroon was often very hazardous and many died from starvation/disease and attacks from whites, rival Maroon bands, and native Indian tribes. Despite their romanticized depictions of slaves escaping the oppression of the whites, many Maroon bands were actually quite violent and even treated many "freed" blacks as slaves. They also tortured any white plantation owners that they captured. The Maroons usually only raided plantations to get plunder and wives, and their raids to "rescue" slaves from plantations were in reality nothing more them violent abductions. The "rescued" slaves (mostly women, who were no better then sex slaves) were often just under new management from the whites to the Maroons. In fact the relations between Maroons and Slaves were sometimes so bad that slaves have been known to willingly protect their plantations from the Maroon raids! Most European wars against the Maroons are often uneventful, and most of the troops sent against the Maroons die of starvation, predator attacks, and diseases with encounters with the elusive Maroon bands rare.