Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The stories of various maroon communities throughout the Atlantic world have drawn a great deal of interest among students and scholars since Orlando Patterson brought them to our attention in his 1970 analysis of Jamaican maroons (“Slavery and Slave Revolts: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the First Maroon War, Jamaica, 1655–1740,” Social and Economic Studies, no. 3, 1970). Yet, in the ensuing decades, relatively few book-length studies have been written on any of the numerous maroon communities in the Americas. I have often been asked by undergraduate and graduate students about resources for research projects on the maroons, and I point to the same limited number of books or articles on the topic, hoping for new work to be published. Ruma Chopra successfully fills this large gap in literature with her new tightly focused monograph, Almost Home. Chopra expands our understanding of the Trelawney maroons in Jamaica, characterizing them as creolized immigrants, further enhancing previous studies on this resilient community.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".