Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in...

Jamaican Maroon language, Maroon Spirit language, Kromanti, Jamaican Maroon Creole or Deep patwa is a ritual language and formerly mother tongue of Jamaican...

as the Jamaican Maroons. Beginning in the late 17th century, Jamaican Maroons consistently fought British colonists, leading to the First Maroon War (1728–1740)...

This is a list of notable individuals of Jamaican Maroon ancestry. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, current mayor of Freetown Adelaide Casely-Hayford, activist, nationalist...

little was written about the original religion of the Jamaican Maroons because of little contact Maroons had with the outside world. What was written at the...

slaves brought to Jamaica by European slave traders were primarily Akan, some of whom ran away and joined with Jamaican Maroons and even took over as...

Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community...

locals. The Maroon Pride Banana Chips brand originated in this community. It is a former home of runaway slaves who became Jamaican Maroons and fought...

The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Cudjoe's Town, the largest of the five Jamaican maroon towns...

as Maroons. Maroons won a war against British forces (1728–1740) but lost a second war (1795–1796). In the 1800s, slavery was abolished and Jamaicans gained...