Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade childrens gifts identity and culture through the

identity and culture through the sharing of stories

Editors: Suzette Llewllyn and Suzanne Packer

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Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade childrens gifts identity and culture through theCharles Frger explores the masks, costumes and characters created by the descendants of Africans and indigenous peoples in the Americas All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish American term for these