Almost Home is one of the latest books to attempt to tackle the JamaicanMaroon saga—an oft-told story that continues to excite academic and populardebate across generations. It is distinguished from previous histories of theMaroons in two ways. First, it focuses almost exclusively on a single group, theTrelawney Maroons, following their trajectory from the Second Maroon War of1795–96 through their deportation to Nova Scotia and eventual resettlementin Sierra Leone in 1800. Secondly, it treats this particular history as an exampleof a broader phenomenon within British imperial history, which might becharacterized as “subaltern loyalism.” One of its primary goals is “situating theMaroons within a history of loyalism as well as the history of slavery” (p. 9).
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