cimarron

[Peter Farruggio]

During the Spanish colonial period in the Americas, a cimarron (accent on
the o) was a runaway slave.  There were numerous communities of  runaways
throughout the Caribbean, and some of these communities had sophisticated
political and military organization, sometimes conducting guerilla warfare
with the outlying colonial settlements and freeing slaves.

Pete Farruggio


At 01:02 PM 10/12/00, you wrote:
>Aside from toponyms and movie titles (cinemanyms?), is the word "cimarron"
>used in English? What are its definition (or definitions) and etymology?
>Curtis