This is an 1801 engraving by Agostino Brunyas. The Maroons were self liberated slaves in Jamaica who fought the British to retain their independence. At the end of the first Maroon War, 1730 -39, British forces accepted that they could not defeat the guerrilla army of the Maroons, and so they made peace with them. The treaty recognised their freedom and granted them land in return for their help in recapturing other runaway slaves.
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Themes
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The Campaign for Abolition
Understand the forces that led to abolition, the resistance and rebellion on the part of the enslaved, and the…
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Plantation Conditions
Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the profits…
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Resistance and Rebellion
Understand how the enslaved actively resisted and rebelled at every stage of oppression including uprisings on board ship, forming their own communities and maintaining cultural heritage.