 These were free blacks who had originally been brought as slaves to Jamaica in previous centuries but had managed to escape into the mountainous areas of that island where they had survived and governed themselves for over a century.They were ultimately tricked into surrendering by the British authorities through false promises and were then loaded on ships and taken to Nova Scotia where they too were very unhappy, and finally taken to Sierra Leone.There were continuing bad relationships between the Nova Scotians and the maroons because the maroons helped put down the earlier revolt by the Nova Scotians.