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55 relations: Accompong, Afro-Jamaican, Akan language, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, Asafo, Ashanti Empire, Bioko, Black Nova Scotians, Blue Mountains (Jamaica), Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, Cockpit Country, Coromantee, Cudjoe, Dread & Alive, Edward Trelawny (governor), Fante people, First Maroon War, Freetown, George Walpole (British Army officer), Guerrilla warfare, Haiti, Jamaica, Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language, Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone, Jamaican Patois, Juan de Bolas, Lluidas Vale, Jamaica, Manchester Parish, Maroon, Maroon (people), Maroon Town, Sierra Leone, Moore Town, Jamaica, Mulatto, Nanny of the Maroons, Nanny Town, Nova Scotian Settlers, Old Spanish language, Order of National Hero (Jamaica), Portland Parish, Porus, Jamaica, Quilombo, Rio Grande (Jamaica), Robert Charles Dallas, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Saint-Domingue, Second Maroon War, Seminole, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Creole people, Slavery, ..., Taíno, The Gambia, Trelawny Parish, Twi, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. Expand index (5 more) »
Accompong
Accompong (from the Akan name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica.
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Afro-Jamaican
Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans who are entirely or of partial African descent.
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Akan language
Akan is a Central Tano language that is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.
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Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres
Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres and de jure 23rd Earl of Crawford (18 January 1752 – 27 March 1825) was the son of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres.
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Asafo
Asafo are traditional warrior groups in Akan culture.
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Ashanti Empire
The Ashanti Empire (also spelled Asante) was an Akan empire and kingdom in what is now modern-day Ghana from 1670 to 1957.
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Bioko
Bioko (also spelled Bioco, in Europe traditionally called Fernando Poo or Fernando Po from the period of Portuguese colonization) is an island 32 km off the west coast of Africa, and the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea.
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Black Nova Scotians
Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, and later arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Blue Mountains (Jamaica)
The Blue Mountains are the longest mountain range in Jamaica.
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Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Clarendon (capital May Pen) is a parish in Jamaica.
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Cockpit Country
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth parishes in Jamaica.
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Coromantee
Coromantee, Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine (derived from the name of the Ghanaian slave fort of Fort Kormantine in Koromanti, GhanaCrooks, John Joseph (1973), Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 (London: Taylor & Francis), p. 62..) was the English name originally given to enslaved people from Akan ethnic groups from the Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana.
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Cudjoe
Cudjoe, or Captain Cudjoe (c. 1690 – 1744), sometimes spelled CudjoThomas W. Krise, "Cudjo", in Junius P. Rodriguez (ed.), The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Volume 1, 1997, p. 203.
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Dread & Alive
Dread & Alive is a Jamaican-inspired Multimedia series spanning comic books, Novels and Music written by Nicholas Da Silva and published by ZOOLOOK.
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Edward Trelawny (governor)
Edward Trelawny (1699 – 16 January 1754) was the British governor of Jamaica from April 1738 to September 1752.
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Fante people
Originally, Fante refers to tiny states within 50 miles radius of Mankessim.
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First Maroon War
The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740.
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Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.
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George Walpole (British Army officer)
Major-General The Honourable George Walpole (20 June 1758 – May 1835), was a British soldier and politician.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language
Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language, Maroon Spirit language, Jamaican Maroon Creole or Deep patwa is a ritual language and formerly mother tongue of Jamaican Maroons.
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Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone
The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of about 600 Jamaican Maroons from Trelawny Town (one of the five Maroon towns in Jamaica) who were deported by British forces following the Second Maroon War in 1796, first to Nova Scotia.
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Jamaican Patois
Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language.
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Juan de Bolas
Juan de Bolas originally Juan Lubolo (??-1664) was the one of the first chiefs of the Jamaican Maroons.
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Lluidas Vale, Jamaica
Lluidas Vale is a settlement in Jamaica.
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Manchester Parish
The Parish of Manchester is an administrative civil parish located in west-central Jamaica, in the county of Middlesex.
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Maroon
Maroon is a dark brownish red color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.
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Maroon (people)
Maroons were Africans who had escaped from slavery in the Americas and mixed with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and formed independent settlements.
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Maroon Town, Sierra Leone
Maroon Town, Sierra Leone, is a district in the settlement of Freetown, a colony founded in West Africa by Great Britain.
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Moore Town, Jamaica
Moore Town is a Maroon settlement located in the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains of Portland, Jamaica, accessible by road from Port Antonio.
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Mulatto
Mulatto is a term used to refer to people born of one white parent and one black parent or to people born of a mulatto parent or parents.
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Nanny of the Maroons
Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1686 – c. 1755), a Jamaica National Hero, was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons.
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Nanny Town
Old Nanny Town was a village in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, north-eastern Jamaica, used as a stronghold of Jamaican Maroons (escaped slaves).
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Nova Scotian Settlers
The Nova Scotian Settlers or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers) were African Americans who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone on March 11, 1792.
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Old Spanish language
Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian (castellano antiguo; romance castellano) or Medieval Spanish (español medieval), originally a colloquial Latin spoken in the provinces of the Roman Empire that provided the root for the early form of the Spanish language that was spoken on the Iberian Peninsula from the 10th century until roughly the beginning of the 15th century, before a consonantal readjustment gave rise to the evolution of modern Spanish.
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Order of National Hero (Jamaica)
The Order of National Hero is an honour awarded by the government of Jamaica.
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Portland Parish
Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast.
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Porus, Jamaica
Porous is a village in Manchester, Jamaica that overlooks a plain to the south, with hills behind it to the north.
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Quilombo
A quilombo (from the Kimbundu word kilombo, "campsite, slave hut") is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin including the Quilombolas, or Maroons.
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Rio Grande (Jamaica)
The Rio Grande is a river of Jamaica, found in the parish of Portland.
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Robert Charles Dallas
Robert Charles Dallas (1754–1824) was a Jamaican-born British poet and conservative writer.
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Saint Elizabeth Parish
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Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804.
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Second Maroon War
The Second Maroon War of 1795–1796 was an eight-month conflict between the Maroons of Trelawny Town, a maroon settlement named after Governor Edward Trelawny at the end of First Maroon War, located near Trelawny Parish, Jamaica in the parish of St James, and the British colonials who controlled the island.
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Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Sierra Leone Creole people
The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone.
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Slavery
Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.
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Taíno
The Taíno people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
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The Gambia
No description.
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Trelawny Parish
Trelawny (Jamaican Patois: Trilaani) is a parish in Cornwall County in northwest Jamaica.
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Twi
Twi (pronounced, or Akan Kasa) is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by about 6–9 million Ashanti people as a first and second language.
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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Maroons
