Time has come for economic freedom, argues Colonel Wallace Sterling Two hundred and eighty-two years after wrestling political freedom from the British, leaders in the Maroon community are adamant ...

Maroon Chief Richard Currie has declared that he reserves the right to defend his people "using modern means" if the Jamaican Government, in his estimation, continues to infringe on the ...

Chief Currie presides over 74,726 hectares of Cockpit Country— the largest remaining natural forest in Jamaica. This land is home to the Leeward Maroons, descendants of the West African slaves ...

The Jamaican Maroons trace their lineage to Africans who refused and escaped Jamaican slavery, ... Chief Currie's address honored Maroon ancestors, emphasizing their bravery.

This was the origin of the Maroons. According to Mr. LONG, the historian of Jamaica, the word maroon signifies, among the Spanish Americans, hog-hunter, the woods at that time abounding with the ...

Maroons' Uprising. Skip to content Skip to site index ... MAROON UPRISING IN JAMAICA.; It Is Denied by the Government that It Was Serious. Share full article. Oct. 2, 1898.

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 ...

Dallas, Robert Charles, 1968. The History of the Maroons, from their Origins to Their Establishment of their Chief Tribe in Sierra Leone: Including an Expedition to Cuba, for the Purpose of Procuring ...

Just as the Maroons paved the way for a brighter future, Jamaica’s women’s football team carries the torch of resilience, unity, and the unyielding spirit of a nation that refuses to be ...

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.

After escaping from the plantations, Nanny and her brothers joined the Maroons. She later founded a Maroon village with one of her brothers, Quao, in the Blue Mountains in eastern Jamaica in 1720.