In the book, Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion, author Richard Hart, discusses the major events and wars of rebellion by slaves and free blacks throughout Jamaica from the 1760s to the 1830s. In the context of this historiography, three of the most important stand out. The author includes discussion of the Second Maroon War, as well as conspiracies between the 1810s and 1820s. The Second Maroon War is started due to several factors. Ever since the end of the first Maroon War and the Tacky’s War, the former relations between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial government are strained. In the beginning the Maroons were mercenaries, used by the government to kill rebel slaves or capture them. However, the good relations between
