This gave the Maroons some land and the Maroons promised not to take in any further runaway enslaved people. In 1739, a treaty was drawn up between the British and the Maroons to make peace. They used guerrilla warfare to hold out against the British forces. From their remote hideouts they mounted raids on the plantations.īy the 1730s they were actually at war with the British army. Historians have been writing about Tackys Revolt almost since the moment it occurred, but Browns work compels us to see the rebellion as a war within a.

The ‘Maroons’ of Jamaica were a mixture of indigenous islanders and runaway enslaved people hiding out on the island.įor over 80 years they held out and lived in the mountains, free from British rule. they could even challenge the combined forces of the british empire from popular memories. At least 340 enslaved people who had rebelled were hanged or shot afterwards. Some 200 enslaved African people and 14 white people died in the fighting. It took the British Army and militia a month to restore order. Jamaica 1831 - During a massive rebellion in Jamaica, more than 20,000 rebels seized control of the north-west corner of the island, setting planters' houses on fire. Grenada 1796 - Fédon’s revolt in Grenada was defeated by British troops.īarbados 1816 - Enslaved people rose up on Barbados and burned a quarter of the island's sugar crop before the rebellion was suppressed. The Haitian Revolution removed Britain's major competitor (France) in sugar production in the Caribbean. The French government failed to suppress the rebellion and Saint Domingue was eventually renamed ‘Haiti’ by the formerly enslaved people, who set up the first free black republic. Saint Domingue 1791 - A revolt on the French-controlled island of Saint Domingue was led by Toussaint L'Overture.

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