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- Title
Gradations of Freedom.
- Authors
JOHNSON, AMY M.
- Abstract
This article examines captivity among the Maroons of Jamaica from 1798, the year of the first census among the Maroons to list slaves, to 1821. I place the practice of captivity within the larger contexts of bondage in pre-colonial West Africa, where many of the ancestors of the Maroons originated, and colonial Jamaican society. Utilizing the Maroon census data in the Proceedings of the Honourable House of Assembly Relative to the Maroons and an analysis of dependency on the Gold Coast of West Africa, I contend that the Maroon Treaties of 1739 and West African traditions of dependency informed bondage among the Maroons of Jamaica in the nineteenth century.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; CAPTIVITY; MAROONS; HISTORY of enslaved persons; HISTORY of slavery; HISTORY of colonies; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Journal of Caribbean History, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 2, p160
- ISSN
0047-2263
- Publication type
Article