COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
10731
Record number:
10731-8
JCB call number:
D801 E26h
Image title:
Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons.
Creator 1:
Edward Dayes
Creator 1 dates:
1763-1804
Creator 1 role:
del
Creator 2:
James Sargant Storer
Creator 2 dates:
1771-1853
Creator 2 role:
scpt.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Iohn Stockdale, Piccadilly
Image date:
1800
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 552
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
23.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
28.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of a settlement with men on horseback attacking it and Black men [Maroons] defending it. Includes battalion, guns or muskets, bows, arrows, swords, and domestic animals such as goats, pigs, and chickens.
Source creator:
Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800
Source Title:
The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol. I
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Source date:
1801
notes:
Now considered an indigenous people, the original Maroons were slaves who were freed when the Spanish left Jamaica upon the arrival of the British in 1655. Under Captain Cudjoe [or Kojo], they fought the first Maroon war against the English which sporadically continued until the Treaty of 1738. In 1795 a Second Maroon War broke out when about 300 Maroons revolted in Trelawney Town. The Maroons were defeated and the ones who remained in Jamaica retained some of their territories, including Trelawney Town. In the List of Plates, this image is titled, "View of Trelawney Town, shewing the Maroon mode of fighting."
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Honychurch, L. "Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the Depiction of St Vincent," at http://www.uwichill… (Apr. 2004)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870?
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Black people--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Fugitive slaves--West Indies
Subject headings:
Maroons--Jamaica
Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons.
