Free communities in the Cockpit Country and Blue Mountains, born from Spanish-era freedmen and runaways.
The treaties of 1739-40 held; Accompong and the Windward towns keep their lands and identity to the present day.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Jamaica Maroons — the shape you scrub through changes in 1655 · 1739.
The standard scholarly history of the Cockpit Country and Windward Maroon communities and the 1739-40 treaties.
Sets Maroon resistance within the wider history of the British Caribbean and its plantation slavery (broad context).
Provides comparative context: the Jamaican Maroon treaty model of 1739-40 influenced Caribbean resistance politics broadly, and Taylor's work situates marronage across the region.