ABSTRACT
Throughout the New World gran maroonage, or the large flight of slaves, has been a defining characteristic of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maroon culture. During this formative period these bands of runaway slaves relied on traditions of place naming to determine strategic routes to what is considered today as ancestral Maroon settlements. In the tropical rainforest of Suriname, South American Maroons utilized the intricate riverine system to traverse this small pocket of Amazonia.
