In 1798, Cuffee escaped from a Jamaican plantation run by James McGhie, and he found refuge in the forested interior of the Cockpit Country.David Geggus, ‘The Enigma of Jamaica in the 1790s: New Light on the Causes of Slave Rebellions’, William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (1987), pp. 285-6. Many of the escaped slaves who joined his community had secured their freedom by fighting in the Second Maroon War.  
In 1798, Cuffee escaped from a Jamaican plantation run by James McGhie, and he found refuge in the forested interior of the Cockpit Country.David Geggus, ‘The Enigma of Jamaica in the 1790s: New Light on the Causes of Slave Rebellions’, William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (1987), pp. 285-6. Many of the escaped slaves who joined his community had secured their freedom by fighting in the Second Maroon War. Michael Sivapragasam (2019) "The Second Maroon War: Runaway Slaves fighting on the side of Trelawny Town", Slavery Abolition, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2019.1662683 URL Retrieved 10 September 2019.
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Michael Sivapragasam (2019) "The Second Maroon War: Runaway Slaves fighting on the side of Trelawny Town", Slavery
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Abolition, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2019.1662683 URL Retrieved 10 September 2019.