The Unconquered — The Book - Trelawny Town Maroons

About the Book

TrelawnyTown.com is proud to present a groundbreaking new work of historical non-fiction. Drawing on over 40 years of original research, digitised archives, and oral histories, this book challenges the colonial narrative of the Second Maroon War.

We invite you to journey with us from the blood-soaked hills of Jamaica to the frozen exile of Nova Scotia, and finally to the shores of Sierra Leone.

Featured Chapters:

Chapter 1: The Blood Oath - The complexity of the 1738 Treaty and the painful moral compromise it demanded.
Chapter 2: The Golden Age - Fifty years of freedom. How Trelawny Town flourished and why that made it a target.
Chapter 3: The Spark - The whipping incident that ignited a war. How a petty injustice brought down an empire's fragile peace.
Chapter 4: The Ambush - Colonel Sandford's folly and the Invisible Army. The most lopsided victory in Caribbean history.
Chapter 5: The Hounds - 100 Cuban bloodhounds. The terror weapon that broke Maroon resistance from the inside.
Chapter 6: The Betrayal - Balcarres, Walpole, and the lie that exiled a nation. The broken promise that history forgot.

Sample Excerpt — Chapter 4: The Ambush

"The column was nearly half a mile long. From above, hidden in the green canopy, the Maroons watched them come. They had chosen the killing ground weeks before — the narrow defile at the bottom of Dragoon Hole, where the road dropped sharply and the walls of the earth closed in on either side. Sandford had no idea. He rode at the head, confident. An hour later, he was dead, and a thousand British soldiers were running."

Coming 2026.