Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Old Cudjoe making peace
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Accession number:
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05777
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Record number:
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05777-1
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JCB call number:
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D803 D145 vol. 1
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Image title:
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Old Cudjoe making peace
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Creator 1:
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Joseph Smith
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Creator 1 role:
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del et sculp.
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Creator 2:
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E. Smith
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Creator 2 role:
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landscape by
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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Published for Longman & Rees
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Image date:
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1803
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Image function:
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frontispiece
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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16.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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10.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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20.8 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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12.5 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Cudjoe, a black man, holds a hat and meets a European man. He is accompanied by a black associate. In the background are a tree and the entrance to a cave.
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Source creator:
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Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824
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Source Title:
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The history of the Maroons
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed by A Strahan, Printers-Street, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row
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Source date:
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1802
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notes:
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Now considered an indigenous people, the original Maroons were mostly freed or runaway 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 1738, near what is today called the Peace Cave and under the "Kindah One Family" tree, Cudjoe and the British representative, Colonel Guthrie, signed a treaty (and exchanged hats as a sign of friendship) which lasted for more than 50 years. This treaty made the Maroons the first nation/people to be granted independence from a colonizing European power and inspired the Haitian revolution.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1966.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Maroons--Jamaica
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