periods of apprenticeship with settlers and colonial officials whilst others were enlisted involuntarily in the Royal Navy and the Royal African Corps. Many of those allocated as apprentices to Nova Scotian settlers would have developed a familiarity with Christian beliefs. However, this transition to Christianity can be overstated as not all of the Nova Scotian settlers were Christians, and many of those released were allocated to Jamaican Maroons in the early phases of suppression policy. Of the 14 men, boys and girls released from the São Joaquim and São Domingos in 1809, nine were apprenticed to Jamaican Maroons. For example, Macautaw, a four-foot-tall girl aged eight years and listed as number 74 in the register of liberated Africans held in the Sierra Leone Public Archives, was apprenticed to 'Catherine Jarrett, also a Maroon' (Schwarz, 2012, pp. 191192; Schwarz, 2020).