Pacification with the Maroon Negroes

Hand-colored engraving by Scott after Brunyas; officers and soldiers outside tent, one reading document, group of Jamaicans at left with weapons laid on ground. Hand-colored engraving by Scott after Brunyas; officers and soldiers outside tent, one reading document, group of Jamaicans at left with weapons laid on ground. The Maroons were self liberated slaves in Jamaica who fought the British to retain their independence. At the end of the first Maroon War, 1730 -39, the British accepted that they could not defeat the guerrilla army of the Maroons, and so they made peace with them. The treaty recognized their freedom and granted them land in return for their help in recapturing other runaway slaves.-- © Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives