Every January 6, Accompong Town celebrates its 1738 ... s rich mix of natural and cultural sites. Today’s Jamaica reveres its Maroon history. Among the seven figures designated as “National ...

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 ...

Quateng was taken captive and sold to slavery and sent to Spanish Jamaica in 1640s ... to form one of the two maroon communities which was named after his brother “Accompong” (from the ...

Maroon Village Celebration in Accompong marks the signing of the 1739 peace agreement between Cudjoe, the leader of the Maroons, and the British Empire. The provisions of that treaty guaranteed the ...

Accompong, Jamaica was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves ... The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1500 acres of land between their strongholds ...

The sentences were appealed in July 2018, but were upheld by Jamaica’s Appeal Court in 2020 — but ... the deejay and his entourage — which included Chief of the Accompong Maroons Richard Currie and ...

she journeyed to Jamaica on January 3rd, 2024, to partake in the 286th Maroon Anniversary celebration, commemorating the 1738 Maroon Treaty in Accompong. The Jamaican Maroons trace their lineage ...

The gathering followed the triumphant 286th Maroon Accompong Festival, “Return to Accompong: Return To Your Roots,” hosted in Cockpit Country, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. The AIDO Royal Delegation ...

I recall reading back in the mid-1970s a book about the Maroons of Jamaica. I previously had ... Maroons who possessed generals such as Cudjoe, Accompong and others. It all came to a subtle ...