 On October 10, 1760, the Ndyuka signed such a treaty, drafted by Adyáko Benti Basiton of Boston, a former enslaved African from Jamaica who had learned to read and write and knew about the Jamaican treaty.The treaty is still important, as it defines the territorial rights of the Maroons in the gold-rich inlands of Suriname.Enslaved people escaped frequently within the first generation of their arrival from Africa and often preserved their African languages and much of their culture and religion.