It is a given that there is going to be much food at celebrations such as the annual January 6 observance of the signing of the treaty of peace and friendship between the Leeward Maroons and the British in 1738. And on Saturday, patrons who had.
Dressed in Africanesque attire, with an abeng in his hand, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Town Maroons in St Elizabeth stood barefoot at the base of the Kindah Tree as he addressed the massive crowd of local and overseas visitors, and the.
Jamaican lore is filled with stories of and references to a legendary people, the Maroons fearsome warriors who could melt into the bush and ambush many a British Redcoat.
We hear tell of the .
For over 300 years, Europeans enslaved Africans on the plantations of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Slavery was a brutal system of hard labour, the loss of lives and limbs of hundred of enslaved people, some of whom resisted from day one..
Investigation by Russell Maroon Shoatz into the methods of organisation used by maroons in Suriname and Jamaica, and the conflict between hierarchical and decentralised forms of organisation in the Haitian revolution.