 In 1609, after having been a fugitive for 38 years, Yanga negotiated with the Spanish Colonists to establish a self-ruled maroon settlement called San Lorenzo de los Negros, (later renamed Yanga).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.