Alycia Hall

Alycia is a Ph.D. student in African American Studies and History. One of five children born in New York to Jamaican parents she began her college career at a small liberal arts college called Mount Holyoke College. After two years, her interest in pursuing a career in the medical field waned as she realized she was terrible at all her science classes. Eventually she would transfer to the City College of New York where she won the Mellon Mays Fellowship and graduated in 2016 with her B.A. and M.A. in history. Alycia has excitedly been researching the history of Jamaica, in particular she is interested in understanding how maroon communities navigated a changing social, political, and economic world as Jamaica transitioned from slavery to free labor. Alycia’s dissertation will examines the community formation of the five Jamaican Maroon communities from the Second Maroon War in 1796 to the 1890s. In particular I am interested in probing the relationship between the five Maroon communities (who signed the 1739 treaties) to other Maroon communities (those formed in the aftermath of the First Maroon War), enslaved people on the island, local planters, and the colony overall.