..Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia..

[X]

How/Why did the maroons decide to goto Nova Scotia in Canada?
what made dem select that area? What was the exodus like?
How comes dem nuh teach dem things yah in schools????


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Arrival of the Maroons and immigration to Sierra Leone</span>
&quot;In 1796, the Maroons of Jamaica were re-settled in Nova Scotia, following their long battle against colonization. <span style="font-weight: bold">While in Nova Scotia the Maroons from Jamaica deterred an attack by Napoleon, and were very important to the construction efforts of the Nova Scotia government, constructing the parts of the Halifax Citadel and all of Government House. The Jamaican Maroons were sent to Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1800 by the British Government in order to avoid the cost of maintaining them in Nova Scotia.</span> Upon their arrival in Sierra Leone, the Maroons were used to quell an uprising among the Black settlers unhappy with their treatment by the Sierra Leone Company.&quot;</span></div></div>
where is the &quot;Spike Lee movie about that

also found this..
interesting
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">&quot;In the late nineteenth century,<span style="font-weight: bold"> there was an <span style="text-decoration: underline">unofficial </span>policy of restricting blacks from immigrating to Canada, and in the 1920s, <span style="text-decoration: underline">formal racially-based immigration standards excluding blacks </span>were developed</span>. The huge influx of immigrants from Europe and the United States in the period before World War I included only very small numbers of black arrivals.

Another wave of immigration to Nova Scotia occurred in the 1920s, with blacks from the Caribbean coming to work in the steel mills of Cape Breton Island. The restrictions on immigration remained until 1962, when racial rules were eliminated from the immigration laws. This coincided with the dissolution of the British Empire in the Caribbean, and over the next decades several hundred thousand blacks came from that region to Canada&quot; </span></div></div>

[Nylah]

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I dont think the Maroons directly choose to be deported to Nova Scotia. It was decided by the British govt that Nova Scotia was the place they were going to be shipped to.

The Maroons proved to still be difficult to &quot;manage&quot; in Nova Scotia and thus were then given the option of migrating to Sierra Leone. They made it hard for them to survive in N.S. because the land they were given to farm was not rocky, unhabitable terrain so they could not even do substainable fariming let alone produce food to sell. Plus, they werent allowed to own land so they couldnt move somewhere else in N.S. to perhaps make a better living for themselves.

The govt of Canada set up blacks to fail at every turn.

[H_O]

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and most black Nova Scotians jump up and down in denial to this. they think that they all came through the underground railroad from the south during slavery in America

[dahjah]

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yuh cyan de ansah dem inna boob by Mavic C Campbell called The Maroons of Jamaica



mine have pic pan it doe, mi did buy it from Muta

[dahjah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Error403_0</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and most black Nova Scotians jump up and down in denial to this. they think that they all came through the underground railroad from the south during slavery in America </div></div>

They are as lost as de natives, when it come tuh dem past.
Dis is what de gov has done tuh dem.

[Nylah]

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the little that was taught in school was that blacks in N.S. came there thru the underground railroad, so unless you seek out information sources other than what you are given in school, how is a person to know different.

[twiney]

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I dont remember it all but it was taught as part of either social studies in grade 7 or history in Grade 8 when i went to high school ... it might have been in the book &quot;The People Who Came.&quot;

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I dont think the Maroons directly choose to be deported to Nova Scotia. It was decided by the British govt that Nova Scotia was the place they were going to be shipped to.

The Maroons proved to still be difficult to &quot;manage&quot; in Nova Scotia and thus were then given the option of migrating to Sierra Leone. They made it hard for them to survive in N.S. because the land they were given to farm was not rocky, unhabitable terrain so they could not even do substainable fariming let alone produce food to sell. Plus, they werent allowed to own land so they couldnt move somewhere else in N.S. to perhaps make a better living for themselves.

The govt of Canada set up blacks to fail at every turn.

</div></div> They were not really related to the jamaican Maroons, but was rather A group of former slaves that demanded to be returned to Africa that were tricked inton being taken to Noiva Scotia.

The Brits have a waay of teashing the decendants of African that they have a different identity by recording these inacuracies in history, that are accepted by the African, a few generations from their fore fathers that were deported.

As a matter of fact they were originally deported to Nova Scotia, by the Brits who expected them to die from the cold..

They not only survived iutb but were aforce themselves.
That is why they were sent to Sierra Leone and indoctrinated to suppress the blacks there.
They orioginally wanted to be sent to Etheopia,but was not sent there.

Ohh if we ever knew our history!!

We woild be a force, then they would want to anhilate us, out of fear..

[Wahalla]

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You know I tought this was all well known among Jamaicans...

After the seacond Maroon war... The one that was fought after Cudjoe Etal agreed to formally hand over run away slaves to their owners.. And not take in run aways.. like they were doing that all along..

In Trewlany there was a fight over the ownership of a pig between a free black and a maroon. (fiya panpork eaters as was the common call in my youth)... Well to cut a long story short.. The british defeated the Eastern Maroons with the help of Western Maroons and some Mesquito Indians... The evil british sentenced them to something worth than death.. <span style="color: #FF6666"> life in Kanada</span>.. I beleive that year was 1805..

The significance of the date is that it was at the time Toussaint etal had asked the maroons to rebel and help them out.. They did not..

Still the some of these maroons ever the heros were returned to Jamaica and teir desendants help destroy the Ashanti..

Interesting would be an examination of the history of Nova Scotia.... in relationsip to African Americans.. After the end of the a revolution A number of run away slaves were resettled there to the Chagrin of those revolutionaries Washington, Patrick Henry, and that mythical General in Patriots who had is alleged to use free black labourers while accusing the British of stealing his property.. ie his slaves...

[Nylah]

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you say it was Eastern Maroons that were sent to Canada and Dr Dudd says they werent Maroons at all.

What a pickle history is.

[Wahalla]

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docs wrong... This is part my oral tradition as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Maroon_War

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">docs wrong... This is part my oral tradition as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Maroon_War </div></div> How come the Trelawny maroons still have their lands, and the Eastern maroons still have theirs, in Portland?

[X]

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totally agree.. If only we knew our History.

I'd be curious to the details of day to day life for just one of these Maroons that helped to twarth an attack from Napolean and how they were used in Sierra Leone.

I'd be curious to trace the life of one of these Maroons who were sentenced to Kanada and then shipped to Sierra Leone.

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">docs wrong... This is part my oral tradition as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Maroon_War </div></div> How come the Trelawny maroons still have their lands, and the Eastern maroons still have theirs, in Portland? </div></div>

The rebellion was not universal among the Eastern Maroons.. I beleive it was a single village entity... This village did apeal to the other entities especially the largest community the Accompong but they did not rise.. and the year was not 1805 it was 1796.. My memory is not perfect....

[Wahalla]

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The colony of Sierra Leone was part of an attempt by the British to resettle the liberated slaves / black Soldiers from the former American Colonies who had made their way to London and were now vagrants back on the streets.. The marroons were never settled in Kanada...

It is interesting that one of the propogandas spread by the yankees was that the British had re-enslaves their soldiers... But the fact of the matter the slaves prefered the British Crown to the Yankee liberations...