The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Cudjoe's Town, the largest of the five Jamaican maroon towns...

Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in...

group in Liberia. In Sierra Leone, some of the settlers intermarried with English colonial residents and other Europeans. Through the Jamaican Maroons, some...

apprenticeships at the hands of the Nova Scotian Settlers and Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, it has been estimated by historians...

of the Sierra Leone Creole people. Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons: From Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, by Mavis...

capture of the rebels, the Maroons were granted the land of the Nova Scotian rebels. Eventually the Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone had their own district...

decision to deport the Maroons. In 1796, about 581 Trelawny Maroons were transported to Nova Scotia, but another 58 stayed behind in Jamaica, and either forged...

hundred Jamaican maroons were transported to Freetown, the first settlement of Sierra Leone. Eventually, in the 1840s, about 200 Trelawny Maroons returned...

Jamaican Maroon language, Maroon Spirit language, Kromanti, Jamaican Maroon Creole or Deep patwa is a ritual language and formerly mother tongue of Jamaican...

aspects found in the religion. Very little was written about the original religion of the Jamaican Maroons because of little contact Maroons had with the...

America, Maroons from Jamaica, and the numerous liberated African slaves who settled in Sierra Leone. All freed slaves—the Jamaican Maroons, African-Americans...

Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part...

Montague James, the Maroons helped the colonial forces to put down the revolt, and in the process the Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone secured the best houses...

became Jamaican Maroons and fought two guerrilla wars against the colonial authorities, the First Maroon War of the 1730s and the Second Maroon War of...

with titles containing maroons Maroon (disambiguation) Great Dismal Swamp maroons Jamaican Maroons Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone This disambiguation page...

descendants of the maroons in Jamaica and Sierra Leone. Currently the gumbe enjoys a continuing presence in Creole culture in Sierra Leone. This drum is also...

the Sierra Leone Company had reserved the best waterfront land for its own use, tensions arose. Soon the British deported some Maroons from Jamaica and...

This is a list of notable individuals of Jamaican Maroon ancestry. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, current mayor of Freetown Adelaide Casely-Hayford, activist, nationalist...

Australia Maroon Town, Jamaica Maroon Town, Sierra Leone Mount Maroon, Queensland, Australia Maroon (rocket), a loud rocket used for signalling Maroon (surname)...

Major John Jarrett (died 1839) was a Jamaican Maroon leader of the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) in Jamaica. He was most likely named after a...

Trelawny Maroons removed from Nova Scotia. In 1800, about 550 Maroons left Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, the Jamaican Maroons helped the...

(governor). In 1800, Montague James eventually got his way, and the Maroons secured a passage to Sierra Leone. The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone proved...

city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major...

revolt, the Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone received the best land and houses. It appears that Smith was unhappy with his position in Sierra Leone, and he...

granted the Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone the best houses and land, which originally belonged to the Black Nova Scotians. After the Second Maroon War, the...

Taino in the mountains, forming a society known as Maroons. Maroons won a war against British forces (1728–1740) but lost a second war (1795–1796). In the...

up a group of 600 Jamaican Maroons who had been deported from Jamaica the previous year and were now to be transferred to Sierra Leone. She departed on...

Smith family is a Sierra Leone Creole family of English, Jamaican Maroon and Liberated African descent based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Smiths were...

only found in books, while the term Kumfu is still used by Jamaican Maroons. The priest of Kumfu was called a Kumfu-man. In 18th-century Jamaica, only Akan...

George Ross and the Maroons : from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone. Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0865433847. History of the Maroons. 1803 William Renwick...