Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in...
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Jamaican Maroon language, Maroon Spirit language, Kromanti, Jamaican Maroon Creole or Deep patwa is a ritual language and formerly mother tongue of Jamaican...
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as the Jamaican Maroons. Beginning in the late 17th century, Jamaican Maroons consistently fought British colonists, leading to the First Maroon War (1728–1740)...
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This is a list of notable individuals of Jamaican Maroon ancestry. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, current mayor of Freetown Adelaide Casely-Hayford, activist, nationalist...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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