Queen Nanny of the Maroons, the only woman among Jamaica’s seven national heroes, had opposed the signing of the centuries-old British treaties agreeing to take down slave rebellions and return ...

Nanny is one of the most famous leaders of the Maroons, warriors who fought across the “New World,” including in South America, the United States and the Caribbean, resisting slavery in uprisings.

Nanny, who protected her community for years, took on the mantle of a legend. Her death was reported at least three times, yet she seems to have almost risen from the dead. The Maroon community of ...

It is not a coincidence that Nanny the Maroon is Jamaica’s only female national hero, whose success as a leader and strategist is celebrated both in history books and represented on the Jamaican ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, yesterday commissioned into service HMJS Nanny of the Maroons at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard Headquarters in Port Royal ...

Today’s Jamaica reveres its Maroon history. Among the seven figures designated as “National Heroes” by the government, the only woman is Nanny, who also appears on the country’s $500 banknote.

She is known as Nanny Queen of the Maroons, and is a heroine, a folk hero who featured somewhere in the First or Second Maroon War between the runaway Africans and the British between 1731 and 1739.

A retelling of the story of Queen Nanny, national heroine of Jamaica, in keeping with her broader significant real and symbolic roles as a shaman of the forests, healer, priestess and protector of ...

Queen Nanny is said to have been a leader of the Maroons, a community which had escaped slavery in Jamaica in the 18th Century. Little about her life is historically confirmed, but she is thought ...

Maroon resistance was fundamentally about escaping ... such as Zumbi in Brazil and Nanny and Cudjoe in Jamaica. Their guerrilla warfare tactics were sometimes more debilitating to white power ...