In a letter dated 14 February 1754, Governor Wigbold Crommelin acknowledged that colonial forces could not defeat the Maroons and argued that peace was necessary to prevent the colony’s collapse. Marronage was therefore not a marginal disturbance: it challenged plantation labor, military control, and colonial profitability. Planters’ resistance to negotiation prolonged the conflict.
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What did Governor Crommelin argue in his letter of 14 February 1754?
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Crommelin recognized that colonial forces could not defeat the Maroons and advocated peace.
Crommelin’s February 1754 letter said that colonial troops had decisively defeated the Maroons.
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He acknowledged the inability to defeat them and argued for peace.