Nearly three centuries later, a Jamaican Maroon leader apologizes on behalf of ancestors who, as part of a treaty ‘signed in blood’ with the British, handed over runaway Africans back to plantations.

Successive colonial governments up to the point of Independence in 1962 have honoured the original treaties signed with the ...

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica-Leader of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, has rejected an offer by the ...

Accompong Maroons Chief Richard Currie has rejected an offer from Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness to deploy members of the ...

The Kromanti Experience exists to honor the land, freedom, and peoples of Jamaica, this is the undisputed vibe. Jamaica is famed for its history of rebellion and revolution, mainly through the legacy ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Frank Lumsden, a Jamaican who worked as a commodities trader in Chicago before returning to his homeland to focus on reviving the Caribbean island's Maroon culture in a backwoods ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a four-part series about the St. Croix Hiking Association’s recent trip to the Blue Mountain Wilderness Retreat, a rural area of Jamaica. Part 2 was published on ...

The Maroon nation of Accompong in the mountains of Cockpit country in St. Elizabeth Jamaica is an agriculturally based state with a population of approximately 1000 residents, some 600 of whom are ...

MOORE TOWN, Jamaica(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Jamaican pledge to protect a mountainous jungle region from mining is a long-sought victory by an unlikely alliance of greens and the descendants of ...

"Parts of this volume were originally published as The fighting maroons of Jamaica, by William Collins and Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd., 1969"--T.p. verso. https://siris ...

In the pantheon of Jamaica’s seven National Heroes, Nanny of the Maroons is the only woman. “Grandie Nanny,” as she is called, a middle-aged, unsmiling woman with cutlass in hand, is commonly ...