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A people without a knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots...good documentary

One of the best modern research into the Maroon communities I have seen to date. I, however, heard no mention of the first treaty of 1738 when Trelawney was the Governor of the Island. Well done. Our physical Temple is a church where dwells the breath of life. I had heard about a Maroon Church in Sierra Leon some years ago and it was good that you captured this image, so that ones who have not visited could bear witness. Christianity was not created in Europe. One love. Follower of HIM Haile Selassie I

Indigenous: You need to redo that religion thing. Church is not Indigenous African. St. Johns is not Indigenous African. The colonial settlers did the same thing in Canada. They fused their schit with Indigenous practices built these fusion churches where they lured, collected data, and later murdered, raped, looted and did horrible things to the Natives. They built structures and whatever else to wipe out tribes in the name of their god, and ideologies justifying the need to civilize what they assumed were savages and much more very disgusting things. As well, I'm surprised that man got baptized in that church. Why in the world would he do that? I thought that was very disrespectful to the Indigenous Afro ancestors. And the nerves of that guy to draw a cross on his forehead. Man if you're reading this, don't let them do that schit to you. Read some Patrice Malidoma Some, that might get the ball rolling. And next, never produce these kinds of documents with white folk. Don't tell them anything. They make a very good living, them (to start) practicing cultural imperialism. They do it with all cultures, they've been doing it for centuries - they capture the data, circulate it amongst their selves and do all kinds of dirty things to make money from people's cultures. And I will mention that I noticed that descendants from India in the Caribbean like to write the data for Afro Jamaican history. Please tell them to write about their selves and stop doing that because we that live somewhere else in the world don't appreciate the sanitized or fusion version of events. As I saw in the credits whites know how to pull from a financial system that works for them and stay away from partnerships with churches. Now that you're done, they make a great living, collect a nice paycheck while you're back to sitting outside. And last, there were some things I took from this. Best.

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ive just learnt im sorry if any of my ancestors did this im sending love i will tell people this history! We never got taught at school!! We need to il teach my children .

Church was used to enslaved the maroons and instead of compensation they gave them church and white Jesus to worship.

The krio people of Sierra Leone are the descendants of a mixture of repatriated freed slaves namely; the Nova Scotians from Canada, the Maroons from Trelawney or Cudjoe Town in Jamaica and the Liberated Africans from West Africa regions. As a krio from Sierra Leone, I wish to thank my ancestors especially the Maroons originally from Ashanti Ghana for their lasting legacy on the krio culture in Sierra Leone. They brought the Gumbay dance which is a core event in a krio wedding and also significantly influenced our krio language with a slight african accent which is so similar to other trans-atlantic creole languages such as the deep patois or the maroon spirited language, the gullah language of south carolina and georgia, the belizian creole, the creole of suriname etc. "mi gi dem", "una listen to me good", "me a say di people dem wan for go back to work". A lasting maroon lagacy on our krio language.

Nouns used by the Maroons, such as "Kojo" , "Aben" , "Nyankopon" give precise indication that they originated from the Akan tribe in Ghana. Sierra Leone wasn't their origin. The children play and the dance could all be traced back to Ghana.

Maroon Church need to come out of the enslavers religion.Look up "Nyankopong". No white god

My grandmother is a Nugent...

We have maroons communities in southeastern virginia and northeastern north carolina. They lived in the dismal swamp for years. There descendants still live in that area.

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When Penn & Venables invade Jamaica, they landed at Passage Fort, Portmore today. It was the British records that said Indians took them inland. Only a few slaves were there with the Spaniards. The Spanish records said Indians were the maroons - colour of their skin (copper- colour). We know Jamaica was the dumping ground for the rebellious Amerindians, and most of them escape, especially those from New England. They even passed laws to stop sending them to Jamaica and Barbados, I agree Africans were amongst them before those treaties, but not all returned run-away slaves. The Tianos were black we see them in Haiti, Dominica and Bahamas. The Amerindians are written out of the Caribbean history. Run-away slaves could not know the medicinal plants, customs and many of the things used in the wild... cacoon, mamey. hammock, locust. Plantain, yampy, cassava bammy, chocolate they did not come from Africa. The half have never been told.

Nobody said Moroons are Krios Moroons are part of the history of Freetown Krio means mixed and krios are made up of many different admixture Moroons are part of the Krio Heritage and many of our traditions are from moroons

We are scattered around the world, but we are one, Moses, King David, and the prophets God is Yahweh. I am Leroyalty Yah Son, i represent Yahweh Elohim Yahshua, Halleluyah

Our ancestors were not Slavs (that is where the word slav(e) comes from) - they were PRISONERS OF WAR (P.O.W.'s)

My great grandmother was named Frances CAMERON, she was from a town in St. James called Orange born in 1896 I heard she was Maroon but I can't find the exact connection

Then if they wasn't indigenous to here why'd they make that decision to work off their debts to return as indenture workers, then the argument is, if some from the wind era returns a couple generation later are still Jamaican or the British now? Is the same concept, but they trying to confuse us because we have nothing to do with Africa beyond being owned land their... But you people don't want become independent so we can take back all what is ours, they own lands on the mainland and Europe too... Right they can't even imagine to pay us back this why the corporate Jamaica operating how they operating, we the people they want to genocide...

AHHHHHHHHHHHH they just disproved the transatlantic slave trade with genealogical evidence of our peoples migration pattern, the maroon came back not Africans slave were shipped here, but the original inhabitants was repatriated to there land...

So why some saying y'all from Africa if you clearly understand maroons were brought to Africa?...

Ahhhh, so why y'all talking about we from serre Leone if understand we were being tricked be relocated somewhere else, like Nova Scotia if that then, that happened way before maroons were moved to serre Leone so how comes that being the last destination of maroons to being the where some are from? Because some share same heritage, that makes no sense because it seems like you telling they from here and don't want to give that information out...

LoL we had a burial ground for the British because they was being massacred....

Kmt... See the rasta elder explain it better, stupid Europeans never understood the sciences of what she done and now our people talking the pejorative rhetoric of the Europeans... Because how could she caught bullets with her batty, like elder said she wore armor that would suppress the bullets blow... That's sound better than nonsense they telling us, because it her intelligence that would of made her known to use goat skin...

Is that real? I believe that story was made-up by the colonizers that nanny batty caught the bullet... Do you understand how guns worked before the 1800s? It is virtual impossible with whatever voodoo or obeah she had at her disposal to have caught the bullet with her hand much less her batty, that story they made up because the oppressors want to humiliate Nanny as female for being such a great tactical strategical, all them nonsensical sumn is extra because being to catch bullets wid ur rass not going make you be victorious in battle, because in the midst of warfare we had low death rate compare to the British .. This why they retreat any time we came across bushes or ran up into the mountains. Maroon means mountain dweller.. Why old people regurgitating such nonsense..

Mhmm, I heard of the blood and calabash but this is news to me...

I know of the blood treaty, this is why it is said that this land belong to us in blood... It was signed in blood oath, by a bloodpath... Allot sanguinary happened and this is my ancestors homeland I know not of any Africans migrants? There was no Africans being brought here from up to the 1500s - 1700s anything before or during was Spaniards, Iberians, Portuguese, French, Catholics moving people from this side of the hemisphere and all they did was dumping rebellious Amerindians in Jamaica...

Which Africa?....

It you maroons agree with that version of the history your claiming to been faction of maroon who became slave patrol stated in the Jamaican constitution... That's possible were Africans, so I'd know none of y'all actual genealogy but it seems to me y'all traitors... Look at the devastating state the cockpit country is in now, all because you people wanted to cut a deal with the Europeans after we already defeated them, this is why I pondered why you couldn't talk of oral history like our form of dialect like I've been told by other elders in the maroons, then you maroons have the audacity to mention cudjoe in ties with your understanding of self identity of being African descen, when was in fact he was 100% from the island he was an Arawak Indian and that's the truth this is why they always portray him as being soft because he was taino, and in favor of Europeans going free that he cut a deal with British in opposition of nanny who wanted to kill them all, but ironically in constitution it says nanny was the leader of the battalion of the slave patrol capturing other maroons, or runaways so how is cudjoe brought in the midst of this... Do I believe? there is a fine line of difference between believing and knowing, so no! What I know is that nanny was totally and utterly against all invaders and cudjoe peace treaty gave us ultimate rights to freedom...

That's a Farce? That treaty was altered after the terms were made, and it had nothing to do with 1600s treaty with cudjoe breaking the covenant with nanny which stated the Europeans shall leave with no return, a peace treaty... That treaty was cited in the 1800s and turned over to England in Madrid by a man named William Penn, white European sailor who capture the island, matter a fact nobody signed off on it to so its null and void, he even captured an area on the mainland dubbed Pennsylvania.. How this faction of the maroons claiming to have gone back and sold us out and not being indigenous, when all the others even bobos and the rastas say we indigenous and they know not of any sellouts and that's what the white would say because its his version of the atory. You accompong maroon have dishonored your indigenous ancestors, this is why don't even acknowledge them and claim African lineage and allow the Jamaica people to be enslaved by the present colonial government for your freedom and the cost of all the rest of Jamaican people heritage, identity, literacy, culture, genealogy etc and you still misleading the people conspiricizing against us with the enemy and teaching your heirs autonomy... Also you guys can have immunity, then you trying to sully cudjoes name and the people don't understand what you are saying... You sold us out so that you'd have independence in cockpit country and it'd of been outside the colonial government jurisdiction.

Why nobody ever publicly talk about the treaties... Or nanny?...

Africans aren't medical herbalist and non of the species of plants here are indigenous to regions of Africa.. So how would Africans of known these plants had healing property when first of all what series of studies they perform and could they under the unconstitutional conditions they would of hypothetically experience, then herbal medicinal practice is foreign to them, that's not apart of African spirituality or culture... Why do people think Africans dying of diseases today if they had these knowledge just sitting down? Its sounds pretty much like you guys accrediting the achievements of the original inhabitants to Africans.. My great great grand mother on my father side, she was a healer and she was taino, so what are y'all talking about? This sounds like colonially rhetoric to usurp us of the land...

The maroons can be traced back as late the 14th century when the Spaniards originally arrived here. The term maroon is an English corruption of the Latin term cimaron which they called the people of the isles because they were wild and untameable... So obviously they'd know the land being here before the Spaniards. The term maroon descriptively synonymous with chestnut the pigmentation of our skin, Indian red... Or more formally known not as descriptive word such as Red Indians. That high Red rusty color like copper, because the people of the Americas was copper colored aborigines that Europeans found here, we have aboriginal indigenous culture.. We not colonizers.

Bigups Cudjoe!!!

Those people from Serre Leone came from Jamaica and other parts of America like Nova Scotia, don't get it twisted and that was early as the late 1800s, The United States bought those lands allegedly (actually they held up the king of that land ransomed him for liquor and rubber boots in exchange of the land) and dumped our people there they even have the capital named after the president in homage who relocated them there... This is why we share similar lineage and culture because from us not the other away around, the whites was pushing them out for more space for incomings settlers, when they really couldn't genocide an entire race now, so they influence a few us that we'd have an entire country to yourself in the land of negro people to inhabit and self govern where white man can not be found... They went over there and started developing country, started infrastructure etcetera etcetera because you know our people are constructive productive people. Reasoning being why majority was swayed to migrate, because of environmental injustices such as social, economical, , because when the whites were dumped on our island some where placed in high position like over seers and they created this inhospitable environment that was unconstitutional, it was domestic terrorism this is what motivated some of our people to move but many was capture and falsely imprisoned and that contributed to the slave trade.... We the original inhabitants of Xaymaca, Taino Arawak Indians, but it seems like we the only people in the world that doesn't know that... They never brought people from Serre Leone here, our history was told in in reverse..

Maroons are not originally from Sierra Leone, but repatriated there Maroons originally came from Ghana. Cudjoe is a Ghanaian name so is Nanny, Abeng, Anansi means spider is Twi Ghanaian language. Simply read the book Cudjoe of Jamaica. We are not Creole. That's not a Maroon church that's a British church

I was quite stunned to discover that, returning to Africa after being deported to Nova Scotia and then repatriated to Sierra Leone, Maroons actually came back to the land of their enslavement in Jamaica. The great irony is that history is about to repeat itself. The original Maroon settlement in Jamaica called "Cockpit Country" is about to be confiscated by the government for exploitation and extraction of a large reservoir of the mineral bauxite recently discovered there. Maroons are now crying "foul" as their land is about to be taken, again, after the British evicted them in violation of the peace agreement following the Second Maroon War in 1796 that gave them that land. This time, it will be done by a government with a black face acting as a front for foreign investors for a paltry sum of money, none of which will trickle down to local residents of that poor community. Notice, also, that similar to the slave community of neighboring Liberia, descendants of former slaves in these countries (Sierra Leone and Liberia) have kept themselves completely separate from the indigenous Africans they met there and continue to snub Africans, while embracing the culture and values of Europeans that enslaved them. You see the same thing in Ethiopia where the Emperor gave Rastafarians free land to settle. They, too, have kept themselves from the Africans. So, what's the point in "returning to Africa" or the "Mother Land" if you go there and practice segregation against the natives, while blaming whites for doing the same thing to you? Wake Up, Black people! None of us is free as Black people, unless all of us are free everywhere on this planet Earth. The piece itself was well done by the young lady. What a sweet and serious little girl to undertake such a project of tracing her roots. But I question the contents and its objective of glorifying slavery. I really believe that their "ancestors" would be prouder of them, if they (DOS - Descendants Of Slaves) completely turned their backs on the things that put their ancestors into the grave, in the first place. Those deceased ancestors suffered and toiled under the grinding conditions of slavery, which cannot be under-stated. But they had no illusions that, despite those awful conditions, many of them came from kings and queens of Africa. And when they died, many of them prayed for their spirits to return to Africa, because they knew that their history as great people did not begin or end on the slave plantations. That is evident from the Negro spirituals yearning to return to Africa, albeit couched in language to conceal their intentions from the slave masters.

The Maroons were not the only ones fighting the British - The treaty only gave the Maroons only specific boundaries on the Island - not free reign. The Treaty also states that they still had to bring their produce to the Governor for a licence to "Vend" in other words - to sell their produce - what kind of treaty would that be if it meant they still had to get a "Licence" to sell. What about the agreement in the treaty that states unequivocally that The Maroons will return other "Run-away-slaves" to the British and also to "Suppress other revolting slaves (dark skinned people who looked like them). The Maroons were not the only ones fighting to repel the British from the Island - my ancestors too fought also - The treaty was "ONLY" for the Maroons - and they took it for themselves - because they knew they were ethnically different from other indigenous people on the Island - The British knew that as well, which is one of the reasons why the British wanted them out of the way - so they could control the rest of the Island and its remaining indigenous inhabitant. If the Maroons were fighting to repel the British from the Island absolutely - why would they take/accept/make a treaty with the British - on the same Island they were trying to rid them of - whilst also leaving others in captivity - whilst at the same time - agreeing to return other slaves?? - It is my contention that the Maroons would not leave or agree to leave their "Kin" in the confines/clutches of the British - and further agree to return them as agreed in the treaty of 1739. The Maroons Killed, Beheaded, handed over and suppressed other slaves revolts who were trying to escape from the British - Indeed they knew they were not indigenous on Xaymaca Island as did the British. The treaty is not worth the paper its written on - because Trelawny Town is a maroon settlement re-named after Governor Edward Trelawny (A BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNOR) at the end of First Maroon War, located near Trelawny Parish, Jamaica in the St James Parish, by the British colonials who controlled the island. It was more of an accommodation that suited the British as long as they could get the Maroons to do their dirty work for them. Since they are not indigenous to Xaymaca - hence they wanted to return to Freetown from Canada. Therefore, The British has no right to give any land or tax exemptions or titles for that matter of fact to anyone except hand back the land to its indigenous people. If the Maroons have Unencumbered titles to land and tax exemption - my ancestors are first in time - first in line - because they also fought the British. They had to re-named my ancestors land "JAMAICA" because it now somehow gave the British carte-blanche right to incorporate everything and everyone on the Xaymaca Island. Out of many one people - my ancestors never coined that phrase nor the corporate term "JAMAICA" - The British and their cohorts is responsible for that.

Very instead I fine this I been to Africa could ave drive there but never new there was maroons there wow

Very interesting documentary. As a Creole from Surinam I see there are many things in common, like names and the history of the Maroons. One of my grandmothers was a descendant of Maroons in Surinam and proud of it. Having been born and lving in Holland I only recently realized that the perpetual feeling of not belonging can only be healed by exploring my African roots. Thank you for posting this. Jah Bless, Jah Love, Jah Heal!

Just found this marvelous video. A great job. Records several Maroon Colonels that have passed on showing the importance of the photographic record. ….So, can somebody tell me why we in Jamaica do not have a presence at all Maroon celebrations, persons from Freetown and Halifax participating as honoured guests? Tell me if I am incorrect. Long live the Maroons of Jamaica.

Long live the true history of the aboriginal of Jamaica the socall Maroon's