Maroon Residence

Source
Bryan Edwards, The History . . . of the British Colonies in the West Indies (London, 1801), vol. 1, facing p. 553; published, September 25, 1800, by John Stockdale, Piccadilly. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)

Comments
Caption, "Trelawney Town, the chief residence of the Maroons"; panoramic view of Trelawney Town; a few human figures shown in foreground.

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