The Performance of Freedom: Maroons and the Colonial Order in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and the Atlantic Sound.

The article discusses the cultural and political practice of Jamaican Maroons, and assesses their roles in the eighteenth-century colonial orders. It examines the contributions of Jamaican Maroons in British colonial power, in the plantation industry, and in the syncretism of Jamaican culture. It narrates the characteristics of Jamaican planters in the eighteenth-century Jamaica, the brutal nature of slave punishments during this time as well as the secular practices of everyday life. It recounts the oppositions of Maroon communities against Jamaica's slave society and early British settlers, and later, their peaceful relationship with the British. It also mentions Maroons' expertise in the belief known as Obeah, their passion for dances, and influence in the Atlantic sound.