2 edition of Nova Scotia and the fighting Maroons found in the catalog.
Nova Scotia and the fighting Maroons
Published
1990
by Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary in [Williamsburg, Va
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Series | Studies in Third World societies ;, publication no. 41 |
| Contributions | Campbell, Mavis Christine. |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | F1040.N3 N68 1990 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xxiv, 279 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 279 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1897275M |
| LC Control Number | 90083149 |
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in , the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. The Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia, extract from Proceedings of Canadian Institute, The African in Canada reprinted from the Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Science, v. 38, Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada
The African in Canada ; The Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia [microform] / Hamilton; Jamaica. Copies of correspondence respecting temporary barracks at Maroon Town, Jamaica. [electronic res The Jamaica maroons [microform]: how they came to Nova Scotia: how they left it / by D. Brymner. After being exiled from their native Jamaica in , the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this book, the author demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of .
Nova Scotia and the Fighting Maroons: A Documentary History, Studies in Third World Societies. vol Williamsburg, NY: Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, NY: Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary. While the first of these rationales is the subject of a recent book by Padraic X. Scanlan (Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution []), Ruma Chopra’s new contribution to the study of Jamaica’s Trelawney Town Maroons, Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and.
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Genre/Form: History Sources: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Nova Scotia and the fighting Maroons. [Williamsburg, Va.]: [Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary], [].
The Maroons in Nova Scotia por Professor of Classics Emeritus John N Grant,disponible en Book Depository con envío s: 4. Most of the rest of the Maroons, like nearly half of the Black Loyalists a few years earlier, began to wonder if Nova Scotia was a good choice for their new home.
The Maroons Depart. The winters of were very severe. The Maroons suffered discomfort. The British then decided to relocate the captured Maroons to Nova Scotia in order to diminish the threat of reprisal. The Maroons were deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia in Most of the rebellious group of men, women and children were settled in the township of Preston.
After the governor tricked the Trelawny Maroons into surrendering, the colonial government deported approximately captive maroons to Nova Scotia. Due to their difficulties and those of Black Loyalists settled at Nova Scotia and England after the American Revolution, Great Britain established a colony in West Africa, Sierra Leone.
It offered. “Leonard Parkinson, a captain of the Maroons”, Abraham Raimbach, engraver, in B. Edwards, The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in Regard to the Maroon Negroes to which is prefixed an Introductory Account of the Maroons (London, ); Nova Scotia Archives Library Collection: F Ed9 (scan ).
Maroons resided in Chocolate Lake, Spryfield, Preston and other areas in Dartmouth and the Sackville area. There is a well-developed historiography of the Maroon experience in Nova Scotia, the latest book on the subject being Ruma Chopra’s Almost Home: Maroons Between Slavery and Freedom.
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Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia: The Politics of Climate and Race 2 minute read by Anya Zilberstein "Trelawney Town" (detail), from An historical survey of the island of Saint Domingo, together with an account of the Maroon negroes in the island of Jamaica; and a history of the war in the West Indies, in and ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: pages: illustrations, maps ; 23 cm: Contents: 1.
Jamaica, Trelawny Town, War and exile Arrival in Nova Scotia The creation of Maroon Town Halifax at war Education and religion Resistance to settlement The Maroon establishment: disagreement and intrigue Internal disputes and the creation of.
The Nova Scotia plate, which Lorne Grabher had for nearly 30 years, was revoked in by the province’s Registrar of Motor Vehicles after. "John N. Grant's The Maroons in Nova Scotia is a highly readable and entertaining account of the journey of the Maroons of Jamaica to Nova Scotia.
"The book fleshes out our understanding of a brief episode of Nova Scotia's long history of black settlement that usually receives cursory treatment in more general works."Reviews: 2.
The government captured some Maroons and exiled them to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on J The Maroons worked on the fortifications at Citadel Hill in Halifax, and later built a settlement called Preston while the Canadian government provided religious instruction and schooling, happy to be assisting in the civilization of these new settlers.
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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. After being exiled from their native Jamaica inthe Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone.
In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in.
And Maroons entered incomprised of about families. After less than a decade, inover 1, of the black loyalists left Nova Scotia. These Maroons stayed four years in Nova Scotia, from toand thereafter also relocated.
Both groups went to the British West African settlement of Sierra Leone. Maroons of Jamaica is not only the most important link, but has become and remains in its entirety a part of the historical period (Long,Vol. 2, p. Today, the Maroons do not accept that they were defeated by the British military forces (Long,Vol.
2, pp.). The Maroons faced forces backed by the largest and most. The Maroons found farming in Nova Scotia difficult, especially as the climate prevented the growing of familiar food crops such as pineapples, bananas, yams, and cocoa.
A small number interested in farming were resettled from Preston to Boydville (Maroon Hill, Halifax County).The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica inthe Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone.
In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this/5(1). History Book Review: The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc., Etc.
