Amy Johnson, assistant professor of History and the Elon Core Curriculum, published an article entitled “Gradations of Freedom: The Maroons of Jamaica, 1798-1821” in the Journal of Caribbean History.
Dr. Amy Johnson, an assistant professor of History and the Elon Core Curriculum, seeks to embody the Elon teacher-scholar model. In addition to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ about the Maroons of Jamaica in several history courses, she recently published her third academic article on the subject. This article entitled “Gradations of Freedom: The Maroons of Jamaica, 1798-1821” is in the current volume of the Journal of Caribbean History. Dr. Johnson argues that not all members of the Jamaican Maroon communities experienced freedom equally and then places the little-known practice of captive-holding among the Maroons within the larger contexts of bondage in pre-colonial West Africa and colonial Jamaican society. 