’Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions/ Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults and the Whiskey Rebellion
The ‘Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions, 1795-1800 In 1795 the Jamaican Maroons from Trelawney Town revolted against the British. The rebellion was short lived but sent shockwaves across the Island that saw the British Governor, Lord Balcarres, gather the Assembly of Jamaica and orde...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2017
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639575 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238&context=etd |