According to Father Raymond Breton’s ‘Dictionnaire caraïbe-français’ , published in 1665, the Kalinago of Dominica referred to escaped African slaves with an Arawakan word, ‘kachiona’. In the hills above Colihaut is an area called Kachibona and, a little further to the south, an area called Negres Marons. It was from the depths of the rainforest [...]
