Jamaican rebels drew on the earlier marronage military tradition for armed revolt

Evidence

Still others relied on the older tradition among them, the one that had sustained rebellion and marronage. … Their model it would appear was drawn from the British West India Regiments organized between 1808 and 1815 but by now largely disbanded. Though most of the Blacks recruited for the nine regiments had come from Sierra Leone, a few had come from the West Indies, some had even been rebels held in the slave jail in Kingston. The West India Regiments had fought against the Napoleonic armies in the West Indies (in some instances Blacks had commanded white troops) and Black troops were still present in the Jamaican garrison at the time of the rebellion. In any case, some slaves had taken to the field of battle quite comfortable with a military tradition — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 811

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Marronage as a sustaining tradition echoed throughout the book’s treatment of the Black radical tradition’s roots.

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• The 1865 Jamaican rebellion convinced Britain to strip the colonial oligarchy of power. (similarity 0.83)
• The 1831 Jamaican revolt was actually several distinct actions (similarity 0.82)
• Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation (similarity 0.81)
• Witnessing peasant uprisings in Ethiopia and the Caribbean converted James to armed rebellion (similarity 0.81)
• Barbadian slaves modeled their 1816 rebellion on the Haitian revolution (similarity 0.81)
• The 1831 Jamaican rebellion forced British emancipation from above (similarity 0.80)
• Jamaican maroon societies grew primarily through slave rebellions and escape (similarity 0.80)
• Slave resistance evolved from communal shipboard revolts seeking return to marronage and egalitarian societies. (similarity 0.80)
• Slave rebellion made maintaining slavery costlier than abolition. (similarity 0.80)
• Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands. (similarity 0.80)
• Religious and spiritual practices served as preparation for slave rebellion (similarity 0.80)
• Caribbean rebels consciously modeled their revolts on the Haitian revolution (similarity 0.79)
• The 1831 Jamaican Black Regiment won the field against the militia. (similarity 0.79)
• Marronage gave way to communal Black radicalism nurtured and expressed in mass resistance (similarity 0.79)