 When Archdeacon Alonso de Castro toured Hispaniola in 1542, he estimated the maroon population at 2,000–3,000 persons.The French encountered many forms of slave resistance during the 17th and 18th centuries.Enslaved Africans who fled to remote mountainous areas were called "marron" (French) or "mawon" (Haitian Creole), meaning 'escaped slave'.