Mar 26, 2012 jamaica is known for many things like its beaches, wildlife, and reggae music. The accompong maroons of jamaica harness within their social order distinct. The maroons in ambush on the dromilly estate in the. Maroons played an important role in the histories of brazil, suriname, puerto rico, haiti, dominican republic, cuba, and jamaica. Christopher columbus discovered jamaica in 1494, but people have in habited the island for thousands of years before. The obscured history of jamaicas maroon societies jstor daily. Let us know how access to this document benefits you. From 1729 to 1739, a state of open warfare existed between the british and the maroons. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. By the end of the war, all the other maroon settlements in jamaica had been destroyed, and accompong alone remained. Mar 26, 2017 we dive deeper into jamaica s blue mountains and get welcomed into the scotts hall maroon community. The first british governor, robert hunter, was frustrated by jamaica s mountainous terrain, which the maroon leaders used to their advantage.
Courtesy department of lands and evaluation, jamaica. The maroons of jamaica black resistance against slavery. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link. Through the use of slave labor, the production of sugar in this british colony flourished. After the english invasion of jamaica in 1655, small bands of renegade slaves, emancipated by the handful of spanish survivors.
This article examines the practices of captivity among the maroons of jamaica during the early colonial period. Aug 04, 2010 a segment from our show island stylee takes a look at the maroons of jamaica. The jamaican maroons, 16551770 jonathan brooks, university of north carolina wilmington. View maroons in jamaica research papers on academia. There is much modern writing on this topic, sometimes suffering from presentism when the maroons are viewed from modern perspectives which do not take adequately into account the context of earlier centuries. Maroon history, music, and sacred sounds in the americas. Creolization in the cockpits, jamaica, by jean besson. Jamaican maroons the indomitable maroons of jamaica. A segment from our show island stylee takes a look at the maroons of jamaica. Herbal plants of jamaica download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Under it the maroons are to be left alone on their land, free from outside interference and responsible for their own criminal code. The fighting maroons of jamaica national library of australia. A careful and thorough study of the jamaican maroons from the british conquest to the late 18th century.
Jamaica has a mix of people from different races, religions, and countries so its culture is varied. The accompong maroons remained neutral and the british left them alone. The jamaican maroons were not a small rebel community, instead they were a complex polity that operated as such from 16551770. Constraints on the maroons after the 1739 treaties whittled away the powers of the leaders and undoubtedly increased maroon dependence on, and interaction with, whites. Oct 23, 2015 the ancestors of the maroons of jamaica were enslaved africans who had been brought there by the spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries, and later by the british who captured jamaica from spain in 1655, to work its lucrative sugar plantations.
Aug 31, 2016 perhaps the most wellknown maroon societies are the ones that existed, and in fact still exist, in jamaica. But those that made treaties with the british crown in jamaica in 1739 were destined for special fame or infamy, depending on the perspective. Maroons are being positioned in relation to the amorphous concept of diaspora, which is normally used to refer to people who have been dispersed from their place of origins. The history of jamaica volume 1 download ebook pdf, epub. The leaders of the maroons did meet british officers to accept a peace agreement offered to them. The history of the maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at sierra leone, including the expedition to cuba for the purpose of procuring spanish chasseurs and the state of the island of jamaica for the last ten years with a succinct history of the island previous to that period. Jamaican maroons descend from maroons, africans who escaped from slavery onto the island of jamaica and established free communities in the mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Though hugely outnumbered and poorly equipped, they launched a highly. From their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at sierra leone, including the expedition to cuba, for the purpose of procuring spanish chasseurs. Roughly, 3000 species of plants grow on the island, with 25 percent of them being found nowhere else on earth. As a rule, this type of survey is small and does not seem to always take into account too many alternative explanations, or even the differences between correlation and causality, but always shows new findings that lead in the same direction not. Queen nanny is credited with being the single figure who united the maroons across jamaica and played a major role the preservation of afrikan culture and knowledge. It draws on the authors multidisciplinary research and engagement with the windward maroons of jamaica, which include, inter alia, the production of a.
We dive deeper into jamaicas blue mountains and get welcomed into the scotts hall maroon community. A journey through their history and their ethnic identity formation the maroons, by their daily struggle for freedom, forged for themselves an identity according to which they judge themselves. If that struggle and identity are not understood then any judgment of them is not valid. Why the treaty frees the maroons harvard university. By 1720, the maroons took the offensive, mounting raids against british plantations along the base of the mountains. Pdf tracing ancestor rice of suriname maroons back to. Unfortunately, formal scribal record s of nanny s operations are scanty and much of what is known about her today lies in oral. Bourgoin depicting british troops caught in an ambush by a group of maroons in 1795. We hear from colonel wallace sterling, leader of the moretown maroons at the celebrations honoring nanny. In this paper, i argue that the practice of holding people in bondage in maroon communities, which was strongly influenced by the west. Slaverys exiles the story of the american maroons caption. A history of resistance, collaboration and betrayal campbell, mavis c. The british never recognized the maroons as independent and did not view the treaty as a document that would bring balance between the two nations. The word maroon is derived from the spanish term cimarron, which was used initially to refer to domesticated cattle that had escaped to the hills of hispaniola and then later applied to runaway slaves in the americas, since the latter half of the 17 th century.
A history of resistance, collaboration and betrayal. The trelawny town maroons were resettled in nova scotia for a few brutal winters, and the survivors were sent back to africa to live in sierra leone. The reading of the book guides you in a unique way through the process necessary to access a characters subjective experience. Transformations of freedom in the land of the maroons brill. Historical documents refer to her as the rebels sic old obeah woman. Click download or read online button to get herbal plants of jamaica book now. The jamaican maroons are often described as enslaved africans and persons of noticeable african descent who ran away or escaped from their masters or owners to acquire and preserve their freedom. But the courageous resistance of the maroons threatened this prosperous industry. Jamaican maroons descend from maroons, africans who escaped from slavery onto the island. There were many years of peace between the maroons and the british in jamaica.
Download fulltext pdf tracing ancestor rice of suriname maroons back to its african origin article pdf available in nature plants 2. We can trace the tale of the courageous run away slaves, or maroons of jamaica, back to 1655, when the british captured that island. This took place after they contributed to the near extinction of the native taino arawaks from overwork and european diseases. During the 18th century, the powerful maroons, escaped exslaves who settled in the mountains of jamaica, carved out a significant area of influence. For the first time, i, as a jamaican, realized the tremendous contribution the maroons had made to the politioal and oultural history of jamaica as they struggled to gain their freedom from the. Escaped africans who were enslaved during spanish rule over jamaica 14931656 may have been the first to develop such refugee communities. Its a simple print off and do activity with all of the sources and worksheet on the file. There is a differentiated sheet for lower ability pupils.
Media in category maroons of jamaica the following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. Click download or read online button to get the history of jamaica volume 1 book now. In exploring the maroons as a black community, the work looks at how they employ diaspora in making linkages to other communities of african descent and for what purposes. Individual groups of maroons often allied themselves with the local indigenous tribes and occasionally assimilated into these populations.
But, in 1795, the new governor of jamaica, balcarres, decided to deal with some minor breaches of the peace treaty by a community of maroons called the trelawney town. Jamaica has a high degree of biological and cultural diversity. Pdf the position taken in this paper is that while it is generally true that many more enslaved. This crucial time in jamaican history marked the end of spanish power and the rise of an independent force in jamaica, the maroons. The maroons of jamaica the good, the bad, and the forgotten. The maroons in ambush on the dromilly estate in the parish of trelawney, jamaica. Though a panafrican identity emerged among the maroons, partly stimulated by the leaders desire to minimize ethnic cleavages, this identity had its limitations. Reading a book also teaches reading people slaverys exiles the story of the american maroons, which means research. The fighting maroons of jamaica robinson, carey on. Collins and sangster jamaica kingston wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. Choice this richly textured study of the struggles of the maroons of jamaica against the british colonial authorities, their subsequent collaboration with and betrayal by them, will be of great interest to historians of africa. The actions of the united states and jamaica in interfering with the maroons drug policy thus violate the treaty of peace between the maroons and the british, and should cease. Jamaican maroons in nova scotia the canadian encyclopedia. In hemispheric context, the early maroon communities of jamaica those formed in the 17th century, during the late spanish and early british periods were hardly unique.