the carribbban
...ly and politically independent of the European colonial enclave. Some communities lasted only for very short periods of time. Others endured for centuries. The tools for success seemed to be the nature of their social organization and the physical locations of the communities. The maroon communities depended on good fortune and the quality of leadership. Leadership was determined partly by military and partly by political ability. Security was a constant preoccupation of the maroon villages. The main part of their survival was the physical setting of the villages. These were located in very covet places. Only the fittest and luckiest survived. Starvation, malnutrition, small pox and many other things took a high toll on villagers. Maroon communities recruited and trained enough manpower to defy local authorities, wage successful wars and secure their own peace treaties. Successful maroonage required the concealed cooperation of slaves, free persons of color and free whites within the settled states which enabled the maroons to get firearms, tools utensils, and food. They lacked adequate facilities for long term economic and social success. They were ultimately unable to overcome the severe limitations and internal contradictions of a state within a state. 3 The Europeans went to the Caribbean and the Americas to make a profit if they could and settle if they had to. Whichever colony had the greatest chance of economic gain the greater the importance of the colony. At first these settlers were just looking to settle. They eventually seen economic profits to be made by the fertile lands. This is when they brought slaves in which the majority of these islands were black which were dominated by a minority of Europeans. Some settlers also mated with many of these colored women. Unlike the settler colony, economic motivation became the base for European interest. The settler colonies were overseas components of the mother country in which settler societies forced no greater problem than adjusting constantly to the cultural variations produced by time and geography. The exploitation society was the true melting pot of races, cultures, and beliefs. Exploitation societies lacked a common, unifying basis beyond the plantations and other economic enterpris...