Caribbean History Test 1 Study Guide
18th Century Slave System and Forms of Control
-The role, purpose and importance of the slaves having their “provision grounds”
-Forms of Control- “Police Laws” and the suppression of African Culture
Factors that influenced the nature of
Marronage:
Geography/ Topography
The Indigenous Population: Maya,
Taino, and Kalinago
Territorial Politics (European Factions
conflict )
Jamaica
-Slaves purpose for Resisting
Origins of Marronage
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Began in Hispaniola where slaves ran away and made settlements with the Tainos.
Spanish called them Cimarron.
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Cimarron: Dweller on the mountain top
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Areas that had maroons were either large or had mountainous or dense tropical forest.
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Maroons faced many difficulties in establishing their settlements.
1st Maroon War
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Unclear exact origins
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Maroon leader: Cudjoe
Treaties
1. Maroons were allowed freedom & possession of lands between Trelawney Town & Cockpit
Country 1500 acres
2. Maroons promised not to attack white planters
3. Give assistance to the government against external enemies & internal revolts
4. Two white superintendents living in to maintain “ friendly correspondence”
2nd Maroon War
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Origins- over crowding
- Cpt. Thomas Craskell ordering public whipping of Runaway in front of Runaways by
black overseers.
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Complication- for Jamaican authorities because of St. Domingue Revolt
1796- 556 Maroons deported to Nova Scotia & then to Sierra Leone