Jamaica
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Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10,990 square kilometres. It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. Jam
Statue of Christopher Columbus in St. Ann Parish
Henry Morgan was a Caribbean pirate, privateer, plantation owner and slaveholder; he had first come to the West Indies as an indentured servant, like most of the early English colonists.
Harbour Street, Kingston, c. 1820
Governor Sir Lionel Smith, accompanied by Revd James Phillippo, proclaiming the abolition of slavery in the colony of Jamaica, on 1 August 1838, from the King's House in Spanish Town
Jamaican Maroons
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Jamaican Maroons are a group descended from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, p
The maroon leader Cudjoe making peace with the planter John Guthrie
"Leonard Parkinson, A Captain of the Maroons; taken from the Life" 1796 by Abraham Raimbach
Six Maroons, with rifles and in camouflage, with Colonel Fyfe, c.1865
Ferron Williams, former Colonel-in-Chief and elected leader of Accompong