(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) DALLAS RC The History of the Maroons

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DALLAS, R.C. The History of the Maroons. From Their Origin to the Establishment of their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone: including the Expedition to Cuba . . . and the State of the Island of Jamaica. Frontispiece in volume I, large folding map in each volume. Both volumes rebound in brown cloth with red morocco labels; pages toned; a couple of early institutional stamps. London, 1803

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first edition of this history of the so-called "maroons," a corruption of the Spanish word "Cimarron," meaning savage or wild. The Maroons and their counterpart the Cimarrones in Cuba were runaways who made their way to the interior of the islands of Cuba and Jamaica, setting up entire self-sufficient communities. In the case of Jamaica, quite successfully, forcing the British to negotiate treaties with them.