8/23/2023 0 Comments Battle slaves jamaica![]() ![]() Invasion, the Maroons were organized into a militia company. ![]() In acknowledgement of the Maroons’ military reputation, and because the government feared a French Some of the land and farms that had been left vacant by the emigration of the Black Loyalists in 1792 were available in Preston ( see also Black Canadians).Īdditional houses were built, a schoolmaster and clergyman employed, provisions were provided, and the Maroons were expected to become peaceful farmers. With the permission of the British authorities, Wentworth decided to settle the Maroons in Nova Scotia. (later Duke of Kent), who had reviewed the Maroon men on shipboard, employed them to work on his refortification of Citadel Hill ( see Halifax Citadel). The government of Nova Scotia was left to determine their future. On 21 and 22 July 1796, the Dover, Mary and Ann landed in Halifax Harbour, carrying between 550 and 600 Maroon men, women and children. Previous Next Arrival in Halifax, Nova Scotia Jamaica provided a grant of £25,000 to pay their expenses and sent administrative officials and Doctor John Oxley, a surgeon, to travel with them. They decided that Halifax would be at least the temporary destination of the Maroons. Accordingly, without consultation with Governor Sir John Wentworth or his government ( see Council of Twelve), Jamaican authorities had discussed various destinations for the exiled Trelawny Maroons but the closest British port the transport fleet would pass was Halifax, the 47-year-oldĬapital of the colony of Nova Scotia. By happenstance, the British Navy had a number of largely empty transport ships, under convoy protection, due to leave Jamaica. By March 1796, the conflict was over.Ĭlaiming that the terms of the treaty were not fully met, the government of Jamaica determined to exile the Trelawny Maroons. The Maroons agreed to a truce on 21 December 1795. Other Maroon communities did not join them in their uprising, their supplies began to run low and measles began to spread, and they were outnumbered and outgunned by government forces led by General Although they had able leaders, including Montague James, Leonard ParkinsonĪnd James Palmer, the Trelawny Maroons did not prevail. Secure in their hidden places in the Cockpit Country of central Jamaica, Trelawny Maroons engaged in guerilla warfare against government forces and raided nearby plantations. In Trelawny Town, the relationship soured and this, combined with a variety of pent-up frustrations, caused the Maroons to oust their superintendent, desert their community and Leadership and the government representative in the village to get along. The relationship between the government and the local Maroon community often depended on the ability of the local In 1795, the Trelawny Town Maroons, one of five major Maroon communities in Jamaica, initiated an uprising that became the Second Maroon War. Volunteers in the suppression of the occasional slave rebellion. In peace, in a seeming paradox, the Maroons proved to be useful allies of the English planters, acting as slave catchers and as willing In 1738–1739, after 84 years of almost continuous warfare, the first series of Maroon wars ended and a peace The Maroons fought to maintain their freedom in Jamaica, where they had established several independent communities as early as the mid-1600s. Leonard Parkinson, Captain of the Maroons.
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