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.

Our eyes opened wide to recountings of the exploits of the fearsome runaway Three Finger Jack, captured and killed by the Maroons in 1781. And we revere Nanny of the Maroons, national heroine with ...

who was to become known as “Nanny of the Maroons,” and her brothers, survived the ordeal and arrived in Jamaica. They later escaped from the slave plantations and fled into the mountains ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here she speaks to the BBC News website about why the Maroons, and especially their revered woman leader Nanny, matter today. That they could stand up and face death rather than be oppressed is a ...

Since she was a child Niomi Daley (aka Ms Dynamite) has been fascinated by stories of Nanny of the Maroons, an extraordinary Jamaican woman who successfully led a revolt by slaves against the ...

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.

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 ...