The author would express his thanks to the proprietors and editors of the _Atlantic Monthly_, _Harper's Magazine_, and the _Century_, for their permission to reprint such portions of this volume as were originally published in those periodicals. The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease,--endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "civil rights," and "the prosperity, if not the very existen…
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