I found it quite interesting that the slaves had a place that they could escape to called Maroonage. I decided to research it to find out more information and came across this interesting article that stated that "when a slave was under oppression they would escape to a maroonage society. Maroonage societies were groups of runaway slaves who congregated in the woods, thus forming secret societies. Sometimes these societies were headed by sympathetic whites, and free blacks. The societies were like migrating townships. The societies would constantly move to avoid