“We would like to be recognized and acknowledged by the present-day government of the country, and especially on matters concerning us.”
as a new nation — the latter’s Royal Navy proclaimed that it would offer refuge to anyone willing to leave the U.S., according to Dunkley. It would also offer the opportunity for enslaved runaways to fight against the masters who had wronged them.
Approximately 4,000 enslaved African Americans left plantations on the Eastern and Gulf coasts to join the British, Dunkley writes. The soldiers were given land in other colonized territories, including Trinidad. Much like the Jamaican Maroons, the children of the Trinidadian Merikins still reside in their ancestors’ territory. Recognized for bringing a strain of rice to the island that perhaps connects it to another, semiautonomous Black people, the Gullah Geechee, some Merikins still farm the land to which their ancestors adapted.
is located in another part of the island, far from where the Merikins first settled, but is run with practices Mama Akilah calls “tradition.” Her daughter leads me through the paths they made following the contours of the hill, showing me drainage systems built of rocks that filter water but halt the soil — nearly four decades worth of work.
In protecting the watershed and reviving the forest, they say they have also managed to stop forest fires affecting communities far beyond the FACRP’s borders. In commemoration of their conservation work, the organization has received prestigious awards from the government. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see the Merikins in local media,
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