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- Title
Maroons and Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia, 1796-1800.
- Authors
CHOPRA, RUMA
- Abstract
Forcibly relocated by the Jamaican government, the Maroons of Trelawney Town, Jamaica, reached Halifax in July 1796. Lieutenant-Governor John Wentworth, former loyalist governor of New Hampshire, experimented with integrating and converting these 150 uprooted black families, refugees of war. His self-congratulatory benevolence created and extended the fractured relationships among black and Aboriginal communities in the region. This article helps demonstrate the limits of British paternalism and the far-reaching consequences of distinguishing people of African ancestry from Aboriginal people.
- Subjects
MAROONS; MI'KMAQ (North American people); HISTORY of Nova Scotia, 1763-1867; PATERNALISM; GENEALOGY; HISTORY
- Publication
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d'histoire de la région Atlantique, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0044-5851
- Publication type
Article