… and sacred significance for both slaves and Maroons and would be carried from Jamaica
to Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone. Like immigrants, the Maroons adjusted in order to …

… to the Jamaican enslaved” (69) and maintaining “a slave catching … of the Maroons with Nova
Scotia lieutenant governor Sir … If the Maroons are always almost home and never quite there…

… in “loyalists” among colonized peoples in various parts of the world), Almost Home dances
around an ongoing polemic that has dogged the historiography of the Jamaican Maroons for …

… progress of the Maroon community from Jamaica to Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone. The section
on Jamaica explores the complexities of the Trelawney Town Maroons’ war against British …

… maroons were creolized. Though not yet Christian — the community’s conversion began
during the years covered in Almost Home — the maroons … Trelawney Town maroons seemed …

… ; Chopra shows that for Jamaican Maroons, oath making and … of the Maroons in archives
from Jamaica to Sierra Leone, she … In 1795, the truce between the Maroons and white colonial …

The publication of The Common Wind makes readily available Julius S. Scott’s pathbreaking
and enormously influential 1986 dissertation. Readers should be aware that Scott has not …

… the Maroons faced disease and starvation and did not initially accommodate to Sierra Leone…
of yearning for Jamaica, some Maroons became reconciled to life near Freetown where they …

… ’ settlement in three disparate British colonies, considering their experiences in Nova Scotia
and their self-exile to Sierra Leone in an era of Christian humanitarianism and revolutionary …

… for looking into the complicated relationship between slavery and freedom in the British Empire
after … work stretches from Jamaica, through exile in Nova Scotia, and to Sierra Leone. The …