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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 ...

This achievement not only signifies the resilience of Jamaican individuals but also traces its roots back to the Maroon culture and their fight for freedom. As Jamaica’s Independence Day has ...

Cudjoe Day is celebrated in Jamaica on the first Monday in January. The two main maroon groups at that period were Leeward maroons led by Captain Cudjoe and Windward Maroons led Queen Nanny.

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 ...

Emancipation Day and the legacy of the Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia were commemorated during a ceremony at Citadel Hill in Halifax on Thursday. Russell Grosse is executive director of the ...