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 ...

Get home.” Sizzla, who identified himself in the Instagram post as a “Maroon Regent Crown Prince,” further called on Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness to immediately recall the troops, stating, ...

Captain Cudjoe (born 1680 – died 1744) A great maroon leader, said in oral history to be a son of an Ashanti traditional leader called Quateng (kwarteng) from Gold Coast (Ghana).

Juan de Bolas, also known as Juan Lubolo, was born around 1604 and died in 1664. He was one of the first leaders of the Jamaican Maroons, groups of formerly enslaved people who established free ...

Did you know Jamaica has castles? Though in most instances Jamaica’s historic castles are actually former great houses constructed by plantation owners during the colonial era, serving as symbols of ...

Emancipation Day and the legacy of the Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia were commemorated during a ceremony and plaque unveiling at Citadel Hill in Halifax on Thursday.

An illustration of Jamaican Maroons working on Citadel Hill was on display at the event on Thursday. (Craig Paisley/CBC) Speaking at the unveiling Thursday, Marsha Coore Lobban, the Jamaican high ...

The Maroons moved a few months after they arrived to lands in Preston township purchased with funds from the Jamaican government. There, they faced considerable pressures to convert to Christianity, ...

“If you go on the streets of Jamaica, there are lots of images of Garvey on the walls,” Lewis says, adding that Garvey, who died in 1940, is commonly mentioned in the country’s music.

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