“The Maroons in Ambush . . . in Jamaica” (1801)

An engraving showing two dozen armed Black men in the foreground hidden along a forested path and hillside watching a group of White men in military dress coming down the path in the distance

Source: This postcard features The Maroons in Ambush on the Dromilly Estate in the parish of Trelawny by J. Bourgoin and J. Merigot, 1801 (Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica)

AP African American Studies Guide

J. Bourgoin and J. Merigot, The Maroons in Ambush on the Dromilly Estate in the Parish of Trelawny (1801)

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