Maroons were Africans and their descendants in the Americas who formed settlements away from New World chattel slavery. Some had escaped from plantations, but others had always been free, like those born among them in freedom. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, thus creating distinctive creole cultures.
The fact that the author does not appear to explain what a Maroon is, tells me that author is a bit of a "maroon" -- as Bugs Bunny would say.
Funny how the topic is always dropped the day after the election
Had we not had a successful revolt against The Crown starting in 1776, slavery would have ended here in 1833, by act of Parliament, when it did for the rest of the British empire.
(Unless The South revolted against the full might of the entire Empire at that point!)
Interesting piece,
Thanks.
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Perhaps Jamaica
Would be a nice
Vacation spot,Mon.
The Portugese brought the first African slaves to the New World, selling them to all of the European colonies. Before that, the colonists had tried to enslave Native Americans but it didn’t work well. They tended to run away. The British were latecomers to the slave trade and never really caught up with the Portugese and the Spainards. The British were also the first to take up the Abolition cause, first prohibiting transport of slaves in British bottoms (ships) and later abolishing slavery in their possessions. Brazil, orginally a Portugese colony, did not abolish slavery until the 1880s. A few American slave owners migrated to Brazil after the Civil War in order to preserve their plantation culture.
Jefferson and many other Virginia/Georgian/South Carolinian slaveowners lost many of their slaves during the Revolutionary War because the British soldiers spread smallpox.
It is my understanding that even though about 90% of his slaves died off from smallpox, 100% of his debts for those slaves remained.
Jefferson had a bad opinion of the slave system.
The Founding Fathers had to keep the colonies united.
Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia had many slaves. If these states were told their slaves had to be freed, they might have reconciled with George III.
Britain sold finished cotton products to American colonies. The cotton was picked in America.
Since the British profited from American slavery, shouldn’t they be on-board to willingly pay reparations?
What does Bugs Bunny think?
Great post, “Jamaican good articles” on your blog, thanks! (too obvious)
I recommend everyone actually read it and think it through.
All the posts here bouncing around really helped me too, thanks all.
This type of article is like “MMA Training” for readers, where we get a new technique to use to attack or fend off another new body part, sometimes a stealthy body part, of the progressive beast.
It is ammunition for argument (fighting) to support a position and influence others.
The body we are fighting has a lot of limbs that are not always obvious, and they are vulnerable and when controlled affect the entire progressive beast.
Reading these posts is so often a workout that pays off later.
Your comment summarized all this well, “Progressive narratives are actually very easy to debunk. The only hard part is knowing where to look.”
