 Many enslaved people fled Egypt, but like other plantation owners and overseers, Thistlewood often hired Jamaican Maroons to hunt runaway slaves.He writes about several meetings with Leeward Maroon leaders Cudjoe and Accompong in the 1750s and 1760s.In late 1752, when out for a stroll, Thistlewood came across Congo Sam, a slave of his who had run away a month before, and tried to recapture him.