Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

324 Pages·2018·17.943 MB·English

by  Ruma Chopra

Almost Home
MI’K M A’PKrIeston
Halifax
NOVA SCOTIA
EUROPE
Free blacks from
England to Sierra
Leone in 1787
NORTH
AMERICA Black Loyalists and Loyalist slaves
from New York City to Nova Scotia
in 1783
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Maroons from
Jamaica to
Nova Scotia Black Loyalists from
in 1796 Nova Scotia to Sierra
Leone in 1792 AFRICA
St. Domingue
CARIBBEAN SEA
Goree FUTA JALLON
Maroons from Island SUSUSIERRA
Nova Scotia to TEMN E LEONE
Sierra Leone MENDE
in 1800 KRU
FREETOWN
AREA BULLOM
SOUTH
AMERICA Freetown Bunce
Island
Granville Town
Montego Bay
JAMAICA
Trelawney Town
Accompong Scotts Hall Charles Town
Town Moore Town
Kingston Nanny
Town
Port
Royal Banana Islands
Two groups of free blacks went to West Africa in 1787 and 1792, and the
Maroons followed in 1800. (Cartography by Bill Nelson.)
A L M O S T H O M E
MAROONS BETWEEN
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
IN JAMAICA, NOVA SCOTIA,
AND SIERRA LEONE
❁
RUMA CHOPRA
New Haven and London
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An earlier version of Chapter 4 was previously published as “Maroons and
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Contents
1
Introduction
JAMAICA
1 15
War
2 39
Bloodhounds
3 58
Deportation
NOVA SCOTIA
4 79
Conversion
5 101
Winter
6 117
Resistance
SIERRA LEONE
7 139
Crisis
8 160
Accommodation
CONTENTS
183
Epilogue
195
List of Abbreviations
197
Notes
273
Bibliography
301
Acknowledgments
303
Index
viii
Almost Home