Accompong is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century. They defended it and maintained independence from the Spanish and then later the British, after the colony changed hands.
Accompong, Jamaica, early 20th century
The Kindah Tree of Accompong, near where the Maroons signed a treaty with the British in 1739 that established their autonomy
Maroons are descendants of Indigenous Americans and Africans in the Americas[a] and Islands of the Indian Ocean who resisted being enslaved and escaped from slavery, through fight, flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. The often mixing of these Africans with varied indigenous peoples eventually evolved into separate creole cultures, such as the later Garifuna and the Mascogos.
An 18th-century illustration of a Maroon
Ndyuka man bringing the body of a child before a shaman. Suriname, 1955
Maroons surprised by dogs (1893) (Brussels) by Louis Samain.
1801 aquatint of a maroon raid on the Dromilly estate, Jamaica, during the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.