Kenneth Abraham (1675-May 1721) was a British Army officer who was tasked with the suppression of the Maroons of Jamaica at the time of the Golden Age of Piracy. Abraham's well-equipped soldiers were defeated by the poorly-armed Maroons in the mountains, and Abraham was killed by the Maroons in 1721.
Biography[]
Kenneth Abraham was born in England in 1675, and his upper-class family enrolled him in a boarding school at the age of five. Upon graduating, the self-sufficient Abraham joined the British Army, rising to the rank of Commander. Abraham was obsessed with order and discipline, leading to his joining the Templar Order, a secret society devoted to establishing order across the world. Abraham sought to rid the world of disorderly and unpredictable elements, and he was tasked with the elimination of the Maroons of Jamaica in 1715. Whenever Abraham captured Maroons, he would have them returned to slavery, displaying his cruelty. In 1721, the Maroon leader Anto hired the pirate Edward Kenway to assassinate Abraham at a banquet in an army encampment in upper Kingston. Kenway, perched on the roof of a hut, shot Abraham in the head with a pistol, mortally wounding him. A dying Abraham asked Anto how the poorly-armed Maroons managed to defeat his well-trained troops, and Anto told Abraham that his troops lacked the conviction to win.