 They eventually rose to leadership of the Mosquito Coast and led extensive slave raids against Spanish-held territories in the first half of the 18th century.The Garifuna are descendants of maroon communities that developed on the island of Saint Vincent.They were deported to the coast of Honduras in 1797..

Bayano, a Mandinka man who had been enslaved and taken to Panama in 1552, led a rebellion that year against the Spanish in Panama.