But visitors are very rare in his poor town along a dusty, rutted road about a 45-minute drive from Jamaica's capital, Kingston. Unlike the other three Maroon communities in Jamaica, Scott's Hall ...

Francis, who says he is “head of state” of all Maroons in Jamaica while Peddie represents Accompong Town, contends that bauxite mining is just one of many encroachments threatening Cockpit ...

The serene setting belies its stormy past. Harris’s idyllic village of Moore Town is the ancestral territory of Jamaica’s legendary Maroons. Her foreparents were a band of escaped African ...

Among the wild mountains of Jamaica, the Maroons dwelt in a savage freedom. So healthful and beautiful was the situation of their chief town, that the English government has erected barracks there ...

He was 73. For the last decade, Lumsden was the “colonel” of the Windward Maroon community of Charles Town, one of Jamaica’s four semi-autonomous Maroon tracts. Born on January 28 ...

Jamaica with her presence in a momentous ... Today, five recognized Maroon communities persist: Accompong Town, Moore Town, Charles Town, Scott's Hall and Flagstaff. These communities maintain ...