The Maroons of Jamaica: A History of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal

by Mavis C. Campbell

Overview

A careful and thorough study of the Jamaican Maroons from the British conquest to the late 18th century. 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. . . . Elegantly written . . . the author . . . makes her own contribution to current debates on resistance and collaboration.
Michael Crowder, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897891486
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/30/1988
Pages:	317
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
Seventeenth-Century Maroonage
The Critical Years
Prolegomenon to the Treaties
The Leeward and Windward Treaties
Maroon Communities and the Colonial Government
The Trewlawny Town War, 1795-1796
Conclusion
Index