Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone

210:. Governor Wentworth was granted an allowance of £240 annually from England to provide religious instruction and schooling for the community. After the first winter, the maroons, raised in an independent culture and warmer climate, and not impressed with what they considered the servile aspects of subsistence agriculture, became less tolerant of the conditions in which they were living. The colonel of the Trelawny Town Maroons, 128:. Walpole was disgusted with the governor's actions, pointing out that he had given the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. Walpole resigned his commission, and went back to England, where he became an MP and protested in the House of Commons how Balcarres had behaved in a duplicitous and dishonest way with the Maroons. 309:. A group of Maroons caught Martin, and they tortured him, and then burnt him to death to avenge Major Jarrett. The Ibo in the colony demanded vengeance, and attacked Maroons in Freetown, forcing a number of them to flee for safety in the interior. After this incident, large numbers of Maroons no longer felt safe in Sierra Leone. 348:. This was made up of immigrants and the descendants of various groups of freed slaves who arrived in Freetown between 1792 and about 1855. After abolishing the Atlantic slave trade, the British Navy posted ships off Africa to intercept slavers, and would deposit liberated slaves at Freetown. Some modern 359:, which was built by the maroons in 1822 on what is now the city's main street, have especially emphasized their descent from the Jamaican exiles. The maroons brought their ceremonial music and dances to Sierra Leone. The ceremonial music gradually became a popular Creole music genre and became known as 297:

However, in 1831, another petition was presented by 224 Sierra Leone Maroons to the British government, and this time the Jamaican authorities relented. They responded by saying they would place no obstacle in the way of Maroons returning to Jamaica, but would not pay any passage or the purchase of

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However, the situation soured for the Maroons in the 1830s, when they objected to the use of corporal punishment in the military, and a new governor dismissed many Maroons from civil service jobs and gave them to Nova Scotians and Liberated Africans. Many Maroons were traders, but they could not

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In 1839, the first Maroons made their way from Sierra Leone to Jamaica. Mary Brown and her family, which included her daughter Sarah McGale and a Spanish son-in-law, sold off their property in Sierra Leone, bought a schooner, and set sail for Jamaica. They were joined by two other Sierra Leone

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In 1841, some of the maroons returned to Jamaica to work for Jamaican sugar planters, who desperately needed workers following the abolition of slavery. Many freedmen in Jamaica wanted to cultivate their own plots rather than work on plantations, leaving a vacuum for workers, and the Jamaican

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With the passing years, more Maroons requested a return to Jamaica. After the Second Maroon War, the Jamaican Assembly had passed a law making it a felony punishable by death for any Trelawny Maroon to return to Jamaica. Two petitions sent by the Maroons in Sierra Leone to the British Crown

183:, to Halifax. One arrived in Halifax on 21 July, the other two followed two days later, carrying, according to one historian, a total of 568 men, women, and children. According to another historian, about 581 Maroons from Trelawny Town left Jamaica, and 17 died on the voyage. 163:

were sent from Jamaica with the maroons as commissioners. During the course of his administration, Ochterlony took half a dozen maroon women as mistresses. Quarrell tried in vain to break up the maroons as a community.

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compete with the Liberated Africans who came to the colony in large numbers, and took over the internal trade. European visitors observed that the Maroons were disliked by the other ethnic groups in the colony.

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Following this the two commissioners responsible with credit of 25,000 Jamaican pounds from the government of Jamaica, expended £3,000 on 5,000 acres (20 km) of land and built the community of

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and culture made up of freemen and liberated slaves who joined them in the first half-century of the colony. For a long period, they dominated the government and the economy of what developed into

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Once they became settled, and they started to flourish, their numbers grew to the point that they numbered in the mid-600s in 1826. They gained good jobs in the civil service and the military.

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alone. Most Sierra Leone Maroons lived in Freetown, and between 1837 and 1844, Freetown's Maroon population shrank from 650 to 454, suggesting that about 200 made their way back to Jamaica.

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Maroons, Mary Ricketts and her daughter Jane Bryan. In 1841, this group found their way to Trelawny Town, now called Maroon Town, but which they still insisted on calling Cudjoe's Town.

264:, to pick up the maroons, sailed again with them on 8 August, and arrived in Sierra Leone on 30 September that year. The maroons helped the British to put down a rebellion by the 279:

At Trelawny Town, and throughout their exile to first Nova Scotia and then Sierra Leone, Montague James continued to command the Trelawny Maroons. In 1809, Sierra Leone Governor

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music and dance (named after the drum). It has survived into the 21st century and influences popular music. It has become identified with the broader Creole population.

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had the better of the skirmishes. They only laid down their arms and surrendered in December 1795 on condition they would not be deported. General

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officially nominated Montague James as the head of the maroons in Sierra Leone. Montague James died three years later.

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After the Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739–1842

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In the first two months at Sierra Leone, 22 maroons died, mainly from disease, and over 150 took ill.

846:, University Press of Mississippi, 2011; accessed 12 July 2016, available online through Project MUSE 434: 231: 207: 152: 53: 265: 180: 124:, used the contrived breach of treaty as a pretext to deport most of the Trelawny Town Maroons to 449: 306: 801:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), pp. 13, 18. 714:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), pp. 17-18. 613: 538: 302: 106: 102: 65: 38: 34: 738:

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26: 80:. Some Jamaican Maroons eventually returned to Jamaica, but most became part of the larger 788:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 18. 766:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 18. 753:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 17. 727:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 18. 701:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 17. 688:, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2020), p. 17. 254: 151:) had also been suggested as a suitable place. The British decided to send this group to 859: 534:

The African in Canada ; the Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia [microform]

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The Jamaican Maroons who remained in Sierra Leone gradually merged with the developing

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As many as one-third of the Maroons in Sierra Leone returned to Jamaica in the 1840s.

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believed that the maroons would be good settlers. He received orders from the

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In 1796, just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Trelawny Town were deported to

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gave the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island.

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apprentice, an Ibo named Martin, murdered his elderly Maroon employer,

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Repatriated Africans from Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town), in Jamaica

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R.C. Dallas, "The History of the Maroons" (1803), Vol. 2, p. 256.

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about the terrible conditions they had to endure in Nova Scotia.

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