They fought the British forces with guerilla tactics they mastered like camouflaging themselves in trees, and using animal horns, called abeng, to blow coded messages, instead of engaging in direct combat, according to the national geographic. When the British forces came to the realization that they could not conquer the Maroons after bloody wars between 1720 and 1796, they signed peace agreements with them to allow them to remain free men and govern themselves until slavery was outlawed in the British Commonwealth in 1834.
