The Cimarrons<span> in </span>Panama<span> were enslaved Africans who had escaped from their Spanish masters and lived together as outlaws. In the 1570s, they allied with </span>Francis Drake<span> of England to defeat the Spanish conquest. In </span>Sir Francis Drake Revived<span> (1572), Drake describes the Cimarrons as "a black people which about eighty years past fled from the Spaniards their masters, by reason of their cruelty, and are since grown to a nation, under two kings of their own. The one inhabiteth to the west, the other to the east of the way from </span>Nombre de Dios".
