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
A plaque discussing Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia, located at the Halifax Citadel
Six Maroons, with rifles and in camouflage, with Colonel Fyfe, c.1865
Nanny of the Maroons
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Nanny of the Maroons, also known as Queen Nanny or Granny Nanny, was a Jamaican revolutionary and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly-enslaved escapees, the majority of the
Jamaican Maroons
…outsiders only after newcomers had satisfied a strict probationary period. At this time, the leaders who emerged in the Eastern Maroons were Quao and Queen Nanny. The Windward Maroons, in the wilder parts of eastern Jamaica, were always composed of separate highly mobile and culturally heterogeneous groups. It…
Bust of Nanny of the Maroons in Emancipation Park in Kingston, Jamaica
Illustration of Nanny from the 500 Jamaican dollars banknote