Quao, a Windward Maroon leader, signed a treaty with the British colonial government. The separate agreement followed the Cudjoe treaty and did not represent every Maroon community. Its terms granted land and a degree of self-government while requiring Quao's people to help suppress other insurgents and return people who escaped enslavement. The treaty records both the survival of self-liberated African communities and the pressure placed on them to help police plantation slavery.
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Why was Quao's 1739 treaty distinct from Cudjoe's?
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Quao signed a separate treaty for Windward Maroons; the earlier agreement did not represent all Maroon communities.
Quao's treaty represented every Maroon community on the island.
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It was a separate Windward Maroon agreement; Maroon communities were not a single unified party.