" Peace was made within a week, and in the next year the chief
offenders were sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and put at work on the
fortifications. They were afterwards sent to Liberia.
From that time forward there was no trouble with the Maroons. Their
descendants still dwell in the island as a separate people. In 1865 there
was an outbreak among the free blacks, slavery having been abolished
thirty years before. The Maroons were called upon to help the troops put
down this revolt. They responded cheerfully and rendered useful aid in the
brief conflict. When it was over the black warriors were invited to
Kingston, the capital, where the whites of that city had their first sight
of the redoubtable Maroons. Black and brawny, they had the dignified
carriage of men who had always been free and independent, while some of
them wore with pride silver medals which their ancestors had been given
for former aid to the whites. Once a terror to Jamaica, the Maroons are
now among its most trusty inhabitants.
TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.
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