81:, Cuffee and his men were well-armed and conducted a series of raids on plantations in western Jamaica. They destroyed estates such as Venture, Cox-heath pen, Pantre-Pant and Oxford. Many western planters claimed that their suffering at the hands of Cuffee's maroons was worse than what they endured under the Second Maroon War. Armed slaves sent out against them defected and joined Cuffee's community.
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in the island's forested interior, and they raided white plantation owners at the end of the eighteenth century. The name Cuffee is a variation of the
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with their headquarters at a place called High
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Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739-1842
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