Put 'em ashore like maroons?
"Treasure Island"
Robert Louis Stevenson
In this apartment the imperial sway of dull maroons, sullen Pompeiian reds, and sombre murky olives had never cast encroaching shadows upon the dainty brightness of tender rose and blue, nor toned down the silvery reflection of the great sea of waters that flashed under the sunshine like some vast shifting mirror.
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
Unfortunately our own country is not without its maroons.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society