"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures." Grievance #11

This episode explores the institution of slavery in Jamaica and its effect on the 13 North American colonies.

Topics include the following:

-reasons why British troops--the standing army--were welcomed in Jamaica and the other British Caribbean islands

-Cromwell's conquest of Jamaica from Spain in the 1650s and its development into a profitable sugar island

-differences between the enslaved population in Jamaica and in the 13 Colonies

-an exploration of Jamaican and American Maroon cultures--maroons being those who escaped their enslavement and developed their own free communities

-the Maroon Wars and the eventual treaty between the Maroons and the British, which granted the Maroons their freedom on the condition that they help the British in hunting down and returning runaway slaves

-the lives of free people of color in Jamaica, who were not Maroons, but who lived in white-dominated society

-Tacky's revolt and the 13 Colonies' reactions to it

-the presumed moral distinction between the slave trade and owning multiple generations of enslaved people

Dr. Zacek's book can be found here: Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776

The cover image depicts an engraving from 1800 called the "Slave uprising in Jamaica in 1760."