"maroonage" not in OED?!

[Wilson Gray]

What are "runaway slaves establishing communities"? What is an
"establishing community" to begin with?

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> Apparently "maroonage" -- runaway slaves
> establishing communities -- is not in the OED as
> of draft revisions June 2008.  Nor is there a single instance in a quotation.
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> Google Books has "maroonage" back to 1817
> (François Alexandre Stanislaus Wimpffen, A Voyage
> to Saint Domingo ..., tr. by J. Wright, p. 230)
> and 1824 (James Stephen, Slavery of the British
> West India Colonies Delineated ..., vol. 1, p. 290).
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> Joel
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