Capital of Earth: The Maroons of Moore Town (1979)
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2018
- Directed and produced by Jefferson Miller
This historical documentary, filmed in Jamaica, focuses on the Maroons, direct descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. After a hundred years of guerrilla warfare against the British, they won freedom and political autonomy. Illustrates aspects of their unique and original West African heritage that are now at odds with the pressures of model social and economic change
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I played this documentary for my grandfather who was dying of cancer sometime in late March/April. We are from Portland, Jamaica. He loved our heritage and country. This video was one of a few that he watched and enjoyed very much. He was such a bright man always willing to grow and learn. He left Jamaica in 1985/86 and never got to go back. Unfortunately he passed just last month 5/25/21 God I miss him dearly. Thank you for this documentary
😔😪" My deepest sympathy 🙏🏿 🤲🏿 too you and your family 👪🏾 may your grandpa 👴🏿 "Rest in peace with the Ancestors🥀 😣😪🤲🏿🙏🏿 i'm a granny 👵🏿 myself wish i could get my grand babies to watch this with me 🥺😕" i love ❤ 😍 documentary like this 👍🏿💪🏿although i'm born and raised here in Wisconsin i had the pleasure to visit Jamaica 🇯🇲 "Omg! 😲😵 the best time of my life!!👏🏾👏🏾💪🏿✊🏾 saw 👀 " So much "Beauty!😍
@@itstheru274 thank you. God bless you 😘❤️
I will be sharing this video 📹 💕 with some of my beautiful 😍 Afrikan and Jamaican friends there like 👍🏿 family 👪🏾 i just love ❤ 😍 them an there children always willing too learn and they've taught me a thing or two also 😂😄☺😍🤗🤭👏🏾👍🏿💪🏿✊🏾
I need to go home to pass away
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Who’s watching this in 2019? learning my Jamaican heritage is a great feelin
Yess. This is so fascinating and makes me so proud to be Jamaican!
2020 girl
2020 In Ireland.
2021
I am, originally of the New York state of 1709to the 1800s, my peoples where the Chewar, tribe. Migration to the deltas to escape slavery and war. Started their own colony called Chatawa, it's in pike county Ms. Always remember my Grandmother standing Strong, Proud, Powerful. Lived with her growing up and always thought whites were the minority, they would always come to her for help. And believe me, they respected her, none of that racist b.s. happen with her. They either got told off or shot, end of story. She didn't play that crap.
As a Jamaican this just brings back memories of going back home and hearing my grandfather, God rest his soul talk about the maroons and their resilience. Beautiful documetary thanks!
Maroon's freedom fighting influenced the Rastas . This us one of the best videos I've seen and I'm proud of African jamaican history . My great great grandfather is from Jamaica and it's good to learn and see the ashanti and igbo bloodlines.
Rastas are Jamaicans?
😍🥰👏🏾👏🏾👍🏿💪🏿✊🏾
African Jamaican!
Some of our people across the islands tend to forget that we are African first.
Can you believe I used to live their when I was really young. I feel so blessed to be apart of such a beautiful cultural. I remember everything was very simple and calm.
I am so grateful to find this again! Thank you @reelblack! My family is featured in this film. I am in near tears.
The Maroons are amazing people! They refused to be enslaved by anyone and remained free against all odds.
Respect to that ✊🏿
So true! And they were getting paid from the Brits to hunt down slaves. Bless.
They fought against the freedom of the rest of their African brothers & sisters though. Ain't no respect for that!
@@Fari-100 when your back against the wall especially during those times white slave masters with better technology (guns) cannon, etc how easy is it to say fr what you would’ve done? also it was africans that sold us out into slavery first so do we all need to apologize to ourselves?
@@Fari-100huh?
Please explain what you are saying
My grandparents grew up in Maroon town.. My great uncle “Uncle Norman” was a Chief known as “Tailor Thorpe”. When I was a baby they did their Maroon ritual and covered me.. My grand mother never let me forget about Maroons though it didn’t concern me as a child. While growing up in pre-gentrified brooklyn, I felt compelled to revisit the history after watching recolonization take place in front of my eyes. The Maroon resilience can only be found in one other place and that’s Haiti. These are warriors who believe in freedom or death.. This is the mindset we must employ today to fight systematic white supremacy
It’s not about color of the slavery masters campaign of worldwide terror, it’s about religion, the catholic church’s synagogue 🕍/banksters are always behind the mess and madness, white peoples were sold into slavery bonds disguised as birth/berth certificates and outright forced slavery for generations also by descendants of the same people who believe they’re somehow considered royalty, king 🤴,queen 👸🏻,pope 👑 and the entire world 🗺 of pontificators, politicians, pastors, priests and police 👮♀️👮 ,all idol worshipping idiots who go along with their farce and pretended so-called authority over Gods great planet, people, place names and international shipping rights is what makes this world 🗺 an miserable place to be, otherwise we’d be fine, regardless its not about skins, it’s about their religion of Talmudism and they don’t wanna have y’all notice those pyramids in the background of the movie 🎥 when the guy mentions heritage. That part of flood history you’re not supposed to know about until the four hundred years of slavery is over... oh yeah that’s this year, isn’t it????? Congratulations from some someone who was born in England, lives in California,looks white,but inside knows our real beauty is inside, now original moors marooned on your own island 🌴, go uncover your real past, it’s really right underfoot. P.S. don’t let mi-guys know anything, keep your opponent confused and chasing red herrings.
I used to visit my family in Moore Town, and climbing the hills and mountain was very challenging.
"The Maroon resilience can only be found in one other place and that’s Haiti", also in Surinam/Suriname
@@BigBrotherBeat And in Yanga-Veracruz/Mexico, Colombia, Guyana, Dominica, Antigua, St John/USVI...
Tribes stole woman and man from other tribes and sold them on to slave ships history was brutal in Australia tribes always had disputes over stolen woman it happened all throughout history and still happens pimps are scum of the human race stick your hatred and replace it with compassion stuff black power or white supramicy we are all blood and bone
The man with the camoflague..!! Can you imagine being a British soldier and suddenly coming face to face with him in the middle of the jungle just as it was getting dark..!?!?? A terrifying sight.
Scary sight
We must tell our story without hesitation as James Mtume said (He who control the image gives the definition)
WOW!! WE ARE SO RESILIENT. I LOVE MY PEOPLE
Angelic Troublemaker and we definitely love you back!
Tom Brodie Ayee!!!👈🏽🤗👌🏽💯😘❤
Angelic Troublemaker and I love you
Angelic Troublemaker you pretty. Am from Portland am a Maroon
Clint East Thanks so much bro!!! #LouisianaNative
The camouflage dude is amazing.
Truss me!!!!! 🤦🏾♀️👌🏾💯
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There not gonna teach u this in school we want be defeated the most high is with us we just hv to be guided by the old spirits
This is where i was born and this history was told to bilbi by my relatives
This one is my uncle playing the drum
This is my grand aunt died at one hundred and two
This is my uncle David Downer
Your parents and family are responsible for teaching you this history.
I love Jamaica so much although I am a Ghanaian. I feel they are part of me. I will visit the land Jamaica one day .
They are part of you! Or you are apart of them! I am not saying this in jest. At least 60 to 70 of us Jamaicans were taken from the Gold Coast or present day Ghana.
Very proud of my Jamaican distant relatives; they are great reminders of our true nature outside of european influence and attempted eurocentric cultural domination. I am a Fantse man from Ekumfi Narkwa and I see the this video footage as Akan sustainability efforts in the mountains of Jamaica. Bless!!!
@@yangabeng that’s why Africa is called the mother land?
Jamaican are from west Africa people an we mostly consist of Ghana and nigeria our national dish is ackee and ackee is from Ghana, Ghanaian brought it here
Blessings Famly, from Jamaica with Love.
When I think of the glorious heritage that is ours I feel very proud to be Jamaican
These ReelBack Films are a treasure. Thank you very much
I’ve been to Jamaica twice on a girls trip. This Christmas my family and I are going and this doc is my kids pre trip homework. 😅
Jamaica is my favorite vacation spot and I absolutely love the culture. Thank you so much for this documentary.
The lifestyle of these people definitely suggests they are Ashantis. We are jungle/forest dwellers. and we fought and resisted the British rule and oppression during the colonial days. Their ways of life (the talking drum -"Atumpan", the warning horns- "Ntahara", use of herbs, the percussion drum -"Ketey or Adowa drum", the bamboo sticks being used by the children are predominantly used by the modern-day Fantes "who are part of the Akans" in Ghana ) are just as they are still being practiced here among the Akan people.
I been knew about the maroons that's my ancestors!!!✊🏿
@Sheila Mchgee you ever notice how Whites elevate you with a goal for using you like slaves?
Tribal, indigenous and many other people elevate others just because we believe all people should be elevated.
Must remember
Maroon through and through. From Moore Town and still proud.
Wow!
I've watched this more than once and I love seeing how things were. This should be shown to the youngsters in Jamaica to remind them of the heritage and also shown here in England to show the youths why the original people were about.
I'm from the french west indies and boy i love your channel, rediscovering all these carribeans tragedies and historical moments are priceless :)
Mèci an chay frè mwen :)
Yes. This one was exceptionally well done. So many things I discovered as well. Even as fundamental as how Jerk chicken/Jerk pork was invented. 👊🏿
I am who I am today because my ancestors legacy
Maroon straight outa Battersea 👊🏿🌴🌲🔥💯
Ayyyye respect
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Watching in 2021🌟🌟❤❤
When the Asante were fighting to conquer their fellow Akan called the Akim in the Eastern Region, the 'Abuakwanfo' (guerilla fighters) of Abuakwa ambushed the Asante King Osie Kofi Tutu I, He held his ground but was shot and killed and fell into the river Pra. At 14:28 you can see a camouflaged Kromanti. This is a perfect example to illustrate how good the Abuakwanfo where at jungle fighting. I can tell where most of the Jamaican Maroons are from because the Eastern region of the Akyem/Akim is the region of Ghana, which is where the British, via Captain Bligh, exported the ackee plant to Jamaica. The word 'ackee' is attributed to the word Akyem. The Ackee is not eaten in Ghana but is often used as a fishing bait; when the fish eat it they become comatose and float to the top of the water.
First of all, I am responding to this piece on a computer at work and so the photo/name attached to this link is not mine. It is, rather, my boss's. My name is Yaw Frempong and I am an Asantenii (Ashanti man)
Yes, it is true that there was a war between the Asante and Akyem, but that does not mean that the "Maroons" who ended up in Jamaica or elsewhere were necessarily Akyems. The war that you are referencing took place in the early 1700s, the very time that the Asante Confederacy/Kingdom was formed. Slavery, however, began in the early 1500s and, yes, in the then Gold Coast, now Ghana. People like Yankah (Yanga) of Veracruz, Mexico and Benkos Bio (Bioho) of Colombia, and many other Akans arrived in the Americas in the 1500s. Even the first wave of slaves to be brought to the United States, by way of Barbados and nearby Caribbean islands and from the early 1600s to late 1600s, were all Akans - including Asantes.
For all kinds of reasons, there were many wars fought between our peoples in those days, and many "prisoners of war" ended up being sold into slavery. Denkyira, the most dominant Akan kingdom in the area prior to their defeat by the Asante in1705, for example, is known have sold their defeated neighbors, including Asantes and Akyems, to the Dutch at Elmina Castle.
I visited Accompong Town, Jamaica, in 2012. The people told me that their ancestors were mostly Asantes. Colonel Wallace Sterling, the current chief of Moore Town and with whom I speak/chat on the phone, said the same thing.
PS: The Akyem once lived in the area of present-day Ashanti Region, near my ancestral area, called Adanse. They moved east to avoid being forced to join the new Asante Confederacy and to become "subservient" to the Asantehene (King of the Ashantis). We are different clans, perhaps, but the SAME people.
Most of them aren’t akyem and still the Ashanti’s were dominate over akyem and stronger better fighters then u after y’all had shot and killed him don’t forget the asante came back and massacred many of u don’t play
I agree with you. Most Jamaican Akan Maroons were not Asante, but they get their fiery spirit from the Akyem, who put up a good fight against the Asante. After the Asante King was killed, the Asante returned under the new King -Nana Apoku Ware I. He and the subsequently Asante Kings (like Nana Osei Kwame - 1777-1803), all pledged to avenge the first King of the Asante -Nana Osie Kofi Tutu I. During the following 100 years, many Akyem were killed, and their towns captured, and many of the warriors were sold into slavery, and ended up in Jamaica; hence the Maroons. The British Parliament tried to pass a law to ban the importing of Akan slaves into Jamaica, due to their rebellious and war like ways. Many of them were warriors from the Eastern Region, from fighting the Asante. I am showing you that after hundreds of years that you can still see what the 'Abuakwanfo' (guerilla fighters) look like in Jamaica. Stay bless@@julianaansah6367
I love learning about our history. My family originates in Maidstone in Manchester parish. Up in the same mountains and hills of country. Powell is our name. Surely given by a slave owner. But we ran to the mountains. Maroon!!! And we started to build our family FREE from bondage! Amen
Teacher harris ...God bless your soul...
The Aben in Ghana means whistle which is picked from the word tentenben or abeben which is a horn of an animal as you can see the whistle is made of 14:00
Quarantine To Do list: learn about Jamaican heritage
Well if Jamaican government claim they never sign no treaty, then we have a new fight on our hands.
If they subdue the city then Granny fought for nothing.
You must stand against all form of injustice, remember the blood that was shed before you.
Don't be cowards now, colonialism is still the same thing no matter what form or colour it takes.
British still in controll through the Commonwealth/governor general.
That ras need a box😒
Just follow the order or bounce
Tree always remain a tree it never changes only grow until it makes space for another.
Granny Nanny Salute because of you I know truth and justice in my soul❤
It is Delroy Chuck who is of Chinese decent and is setting the stage for his people to steal our land as they are the new colonisers
Time is a perception of Future.... learn were you are at, so that time dose not conform your future
Robert Jackson. Xmsm few k z quick
The maroons are descendant of the Akans of Ghana. They are a very strong, resilient, proud and war like people. I am inclined to believe those sold into slavery were prisoners of war. Their ancestral home is in the forest areas of Ghana so it's no wonder they adapted so well in the Jamaican jungle.
The Maroons are a testament to the resilience and ingenuity of our wonderful ancestors. Don't ever buy into the lie that our ancestors were passive and that Africans on the continent didn't care about us. Remember Queen Nanny.? There are other Maroon communities in Surinam and elsewhere. I am so proud to be their descendant. May all the ancestors rest in power.
Ham sold Shem to the European.
Little known fact, many maroons were Muslims from west Africa who learned military skills during Sufi jihads against slave raids in their homelands
African people were taken everywhere.We are a strong people.You can see many features of Jamaicans and Haitians and other islands are still closely like there African brothers and sisters.
Facts. We are a strong people.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯
Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!🤴🏿👸🏿
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I see my Uncle Apud and My cousin in this :D
My grandfather is in this...wonder if we are related.
Nuffield respect to the passley family....man like azzlam ....the two teacher ladies...taught me in school,,,,Louis passley...
Thanks for another fantastic film. I love reelblack.
Thanks to the CZcams and youtubers for this incredible video and piece of Black history. Ppl that don't know where they come from never go nowhere.
You are one of the first people stand against evil slavery from white people stand strong brother n sisters we love you for standing against those devil empire thanks maroon people long live i will visit you one day from Ethiopia Africa
Not exactly tho. Better learn some more. They worked with the British to stop some of the biggest slave rebellions in Jamaica
dont let the wypipo see this..
Interesting that the translator skips some of the words at 13:10
reelblack I noticed that too!
There is skipping throughout..
Singer Joe tex
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They look just like the Akan people of Ghana 🇬🇭
Omg the great aunt Liz, my great grandmother ☺️
My grandfather is in this...I wonder if we are related.
@@123abc4u what is his name
I am very proud of my people. I am also impressed with the Ethopians who used bees, wasp, elephants, lions & monkeys to defeat the Italians. Yes, freedom or fight to the death!!
A very educational upload- respect!
The narrator, is talking over him so much, on many parts, although his English is very clear and easily understood.
Hey reelblack THIS WAS A GOOD FIND SIS
The European slavers underestimated the captives that they brought to Jamaica mainly and other slave ports. Among the captives were war generals, aristocrats, people from the priestly class and other very brilliant Africans so it is no wonder that there were so many rebellions and even a total takeover i.e. what happened in Haiti.
Now we know how the world military developed the art and act of camouflaging in the forest during war fronts.
Queen Nanny is the Creator of "guerrilla tactics" in Warfare. There has been only 2 murders in the Maroon State since its existence.
I Went BACK TO THE BEGINNING, FATHER BACK, THAN THIS AND FOUND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, because i know that IN ODER TO HAVE AND KEEP CONTROL OVER PEOPLE, THERE HAVE TO BE CHANGES MADE, CONSISTENLY. SO THAT WHAT ONE WANT TO BE REVEIALED, AND WHATEVER ELSE HIDDEN. THESE PEAPLE ANCESTORS WERE VERY RICH.
reelblack, just looked at your playlists and i have seen some of them. lts a pleasure to subscribe to your channel.
R.I.P. Three finga Jack and the rest a dem
Never new..wow. Thanks
When building homes back in the days they do that, even now people still practice libations and blood ritual we are yisrealites take it or leave it.
This is beautiful
Surprisingly they were very hard working people creative wow ❤
I from this area, and the sad truth is the elders NEVER passed on the knowledge ( bush medicine, language) to us the current generation.
Loved seeing where my grandparents came from! What was the name of the spear described at 13.55? I keep trying to find it, but I can’t spell it out.
I can see where Peter Tosh was coming from. Big up
Harris Chang and the priminister did not herd of maroon bien granted land but this history was thought in school
I wonder..... Is this where Maroon 5 got their band name from......
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Love my Jamaican brothers and sisters!
Maroons: a mix of the African slaves brought over & the indigenous Arawaks that escaped the Spanish slaughter. They ran up into the hills into the heavily wooded, lush landscape where the Europeans couldn't navigate. Thus their survival & pure bloodline for long after. ❤
The maroons invented the Ghillie suit 😮
IT SHOULD BE CALLED ( MOOR) BECAUSE. THEY WERE HERE, ALSO
Carolyn Edwards. You are correct. The Maroons share the Moors blood too. Also Arawaks/Tihinis Indian blood. Not sure of spelling though. Great video. I am Jamaican too. Peace.
I'm a moor
Luv dis.
Waking on those bamboos I had Don that while I was a child we call it John tom
Proud
I read this book,thank you.The name of the book is the leeward and windward maroin
If anyone knows of an updated version of this film please let me know. It'd be interesting to see how things are now.
There is a channel called Kromanti Experience that is from the exact location. They share updates and give tours.
I enjoyed the film.
Sadly, such a proud tradition is fading. I compare it to the Gulla Geechees in SC whose land is taken against their will for development.
Respect 🇯🇲
Wow
Big tunes
We survive everywhere
The maroons were in the main land north America too Georgia Florida Carolinas too. Every maroon didnt come from Africa
The Seminole Maroons fought in the indian wars
@@pinasiansunjukaninge302 of course they are indians
Yeah man big up the true warriors of the maroon tribes....my ancestors 😊
Boy did he just cut a chicken..and keep the blood..wow
13:29 I noticed he didn't translate the part where he said "white people" hmmm...I wonder why
yep, me too
He definitely said his ancestors used the spear to kill hogs as well as white people
Right same thing am saying 😃😃😃😃😃
He surely skipped over that part didn't he? Things that make you go hmmmm...
They’re still playing games with our history. Exactly why we have to stay sharp and pay very close attention
My great grandmother is a Maroon
They don’t use the bamboo walking stick these days that was cool for walking ok the bamboo 😂 these kids need to know that kinda fun
I look forward to the name Moore town to be changed back to New Nanny Town. Moore was a British colonizer (first Governor).
13:28 The Jamaican said they use it like a gun to defend themselves against white people. The narrator left that part out.
"Purposely" left that part out
Great video.
Ok I noticed that too!
We doh need no bloody translatah 🇹🇹🇬🇭
i wrote a story about these people . very interesting crossed of cultures .
The Chinese own most of Jamaica now.
thats because black people world wide don't protect their resources/land and are not exclusive and territorial like others (Black people would never be allowed to set up shop in China, for example). We welcome everyone in and lose power as they gain power and influence, set up businesses, buy land, get into government etc while blacks end up at the bottom, again and again. I don't understand why we never learn.
Theres nobody smarter in any era then african descendants!!!
I hope there culture survives
🇯🇲 Note History ⚓🤝 🌍 Buju Always Be Careful They Dont Like Truth 😪😪😪 Trying My Best 2 Do The Same ⚓🤝👏 Blessings We Here 2 Up Hold The Rights Of The Maroons 😪😪😪 We Should Not 4get Them .. I Do Hope NANNY Hear The Voices Of The MAROONS OF JAMAICA 😪😪😪 Respek 2 All Remember Where We Came From An Still Hoping 2wards Our Future 🇯🇲 .. MERCY BE ON THE MAROONS PLEASE . .
We are still due reparations and money from slavery being abolished from the Spanish and British!
We will not rest until this has been fulfilled. The British who owned our people were paid out money for their so-called losses as recent as 2015!
Our heritage is wonderful, but it would be much more enriched once we receive what is rightfully ours from the forced labour and people trafficking of our Ancestors. We are the survivors of our people. Thanks to the Almighty.
Yeah, Ok, didnt know about the mixing bloods and white rum drinking part of the treaty signing.....No wonder that treaty held up till today......Spell binding.....🤣🤣
All Jamaicans should realize they are all maroons
WALKING ON THE STICK WAS DONE BY BOYS IN BUFF BAY PORTLAND WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN WE ALSO HAD A PLACECALL QUACUO RIVER
I wonder why they have English surnames......the first were from Spain rule....the African names have been lost.
Do not let this video put an illusion in your mind that you came from somewhere else your people have always been here in the Americas 140 million years ago when the dinosaurs in our ancestors walked the lands of South America and the Africa which was connected you was here
Wasn’t it a maroon who captured tacky and stopped his rebellion?
Fact
Wikipedia - "On April 14, other Maroon parties from Scott's Hall and Moore Town joined the Charles Town Maroons, and led by Swigle, they engaged Tacky's men in a battle in Rocky Valley, and routed them, defeating and killing a number of the slave rebels. Tacky and the remainder of his men went running through the woods being chased by the Maroons and their legendary marksman, Davy. While running at full speed, Davy shot Tacky and cut off his head as evidence of his feat, for which he would be richly rewarded." :(
Tacky was a maroon
Maroons
My granny is a maroon :D
18:52 buddy stomach was hurting because he had a hernia. Not bad sprites
Cite your sources and you will not have plagiarism issues!
Would be great to begin to discard with these NON-AFRIKAN terms, like Colonel.