![]() ![]() D’autres soldats haïtiens blessés ce jour-là sont Macédoine, Macius, Ledan, Occilius, Saintilus et le capitaine-adjudant Germain ix. The emergence of these two groups in the early eighteenth century had lasting implications for future rebellions in both colonies, and shape national and racial identity discourses in the post-emancipation era. L’occupation américaine a provoqué en premier lieu la résistance armée du soldat Pierre Sully, le jour même du débarquement des marines, qui en est mort. This paper analyzes early eighteenth-century colonial repression of marronnage by co-opting intermediary groups whose freedom for even themselves was precarious – the Jamaican maroons and the freemen of color-dominated maréchaussée of Saint Domingue. Conversely, despite its singularity as the only rebellion that resulted in the abolition of slavery and independence from colonialism, the Haitian Revolution lacks preceding large-scale revolts or maroon wars that were more common in Jamaica. ![]() ![]() It might be argued that the 1739 treaty between the Jamaican Maroons and the British prevented the colony from being overtaken by the maroons and their enslaved collaborators, thereby precluding it from becoming the first free black nation in the Americas – a distinction that Haiti (Saint Domingue) famously holds. ![]()
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