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- Title
Consider the Source: An 1800 Maroon Treat.
- Authors
HERRMANN, RACHEL B.
- Abstract
In 1800, an exiled community of Jamaican Maroons migrated from Nova Scotia to the British antislavery colony of Sierra Leone. When they disembarked, Maroon captains met with Sierra Leone Company officials and rapidly negotiated and coauthored a treaty. This treaty is a composite manuscript document scattered throughout the National Archives at Kew (United Kingdom). The diplomatic customs that Maroons and British officials observed at the negotiation—including making speeches, reading script words aloud, and refusing to sign documents— marked the document as a treaty. This essay makes the case that the source is a treaty; explains and contextualizes the negotiation that occurred; and explores the themes of settlement, alliance, and antislavery that changed in Maroon treaties in Jamaica and Sierra Leone in the eighteenth century.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; SIERRA Leone; MAROONS; IMMIGRANTS; TREATIES; ANTISLAVERY movements; SIERRA Leone Co.
- Publication
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023, Vol 21, Issue 1, p166
- ISSN
1543-4273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eam.2023.0004