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  2. Three Fingered Jack (Jamaica) - Wikipedia

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    Three-Fingered Jack a.k.a. Jack Mansong (died c. 1781), led a band of runaway slaves in the Colony of Jamaica in the eighteenth century.. Many historians believed that after the Jamaican Maroons signed treaties with the British colonial authorities in 1739 and 1740, the treaty-signatories effectively prevented runaway slaves from forming independent communities in the mountainous forests of ...

  3. Colony of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    In addition, despite his defeat, Tacky's revolt continued to be a source of inspiration for enslaved people to resist, either by rebellion or by running away. Jack Mansong, better known as Three Fingered Jack, was an escaped slave who formed a community of runaways in eastern Jamaica in the 1770s and 1780s. The runaway community thrived in the ...

  4. Jack Dunlop - Wikipedia

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    Jack Dunlop, also known as John Dunlop, Jess Dunlop, John Patterson, and most commonly Three Fingered Jack (c. 1872 – February 24, 1900) was an outlaw in the closing days of the Old West, best known for being a train robber. Whether he had just three fingers on one of his hands is not confirmed.

  5. Free black people in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Francis Williams, artist unknown, oil on canvas, circa 1745. One of the leading free people of colour in early Jamaica was Francis Williams, who was a scholar and poet born in Kingston, Jamaica, and who travelled to Europe and became a citizen of Britain. In the 1720s, he returned to Jamaica, where he set up a free school for black ...

  6. Jamaican Maroons - Wikipedia

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    Coromantee, Jamaicans of African descent, Sierra Leone Creoles, Maroon people. Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were enslaved during Spanish rule ...

  7. Samuel Grant - Wikipedia

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    In 1781, Grant was a part of the Maroon party that successfully hunted and killed the notorious leader of a community of runaway slaves, Three Fingered Jack. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Grant made a career hunting runaway slaves for neighbouring planters, but in 1797 he lodged a complaint about the length of time it took for the colonial authorities to pay him ...

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