Gardina Pestana maintains that Jamaica’s Maroon communities, therefore, emerged out of a complex mix of backgrounds — refugee and runaways. She, like Sterling, therefore argues against using ...

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This achievement not only signifies the resilience of Jamaican individuals but also traces its roots back to the Maroon culture and their fight for freedom. As Jamaica’s Independence Day has ...

The serene setting belies its stormy past. Harris’s idyllic village of Moore Town is the ancestral territory of Jamaica’s legendary Maroons. Her foreparents were a band of escaped African ...

HALIFAX, NS, Aug. 1, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, Lena Metlege Diab, Member of Parliament for Halifax West, commemorated the national historic significance of the Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia with a ...

NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Vol. 94, No. 3/4, 2020 Jamaica’s Windward Maroon “Slaveholders”... This article is a quantitative analysis of data sets from 1810–20 related to ...

The annual event, held on January 6th by the Accompong Maroons—the descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped the plantations and settled in Jamaica’s mountains—celebrates the Maroon heritage by ...