{"id":107,"date":"2014-11-18T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:02:56","slug":"letters-by-governor-balcarres-about-the-maroon-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/2014\/11\/18\/letters-by-governor-balcarres-about-the-maroon-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters by Governor Balcarres about the Maroon War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are transcriptions from letters sent to Britain by the Governor of Jamaica, Alexander Lindsay, the Earl of Balcarres (1752-1825), about the Second Maroon War (1795-96). They help to illustrate the climate of fear among whites in the Caribbean during a period of revolutionary warfare in the middle 1790s.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the letters:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/files\/2014\/11\/Balcarres-Maroon-War.pdf\">Balcarres &#8211; Maroon War<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are transcriptions from letters sent to Britain by the Governor of Jamaica, Alexander Lindsay, the Earl of Balcarres (1752-1825), about the Second Maroon War (1795-96). They help to illustrate the climate of fear among whites in the Caribbean during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/2014\/11\/18\/letters-by-governor-balcarres-about-the-maroon-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandfreedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}