 In the 1790s, about 600 Jamaican Maroons were deported to British settlements in Nova Scotia, where British slaves who had escaped from the United States were also resettled.Being unhappy with conditions, in 1800, a majority emigrated to what is now Sierra Leone in Africa.Maroons who escaped from British colonies and allied with Seminole Indians were one of the largest and most successful maroon communities in what is now Florida due to more rights and freedoms granted by the Spanish Empire.