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.
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!
This is a very good documentary, very informative and nicely done. Great display of the history of Maroons in Jamaica and their connection to ancestors in Sierra Leone. I appreciate all of your hard work, I learned so much!
Thank you for an amazing documentary of our ancestors struggles and victories I learn so much and it brought tears of how we can never give up the fight for freedom and truth.
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
We need more of our history in schools , i didn't know that there was 2 maroons war , i thought it was just one, my maternal grandmother was a maroon . i didn't know that maroons was deported to Halifax Canada.
Asantis/Akans use camouflage leaves 🍃 method to fight their enemies, eg defeat the British when they had wars with them so that is very important display among Akans in Ghana during festivals like Akwasidae, Odwira
After all this documentary has taught me about the brutality of the British, Canute is baptized in a Christian church. Really? no wonder black people are still conquered. Rightfully so because we insist on insulting the ancestors. The more we find out about our history, the more we hold on the customs and traditions of those who murdered, and terrorized our ancestors.
I can say this quite uniquely as Maroon and a direct descendant of Nanny . When you face the evilest force on earth ,demonic force, it is the Arch angel , who must rise up to defend you ! The Most High God YHWH , is still the ultimate Ruler ! He fears no lies or no one in the universe. I can attest to this fact !!!
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.
Wow...please add the areas name in VA. I would love to swing by and visit when heading that way in the future. The video taught me a lot as a Jamaican living in the US and I never new persons identifying as maroons lived/live in that part of the states.
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.
Our ancestor Alfred Osborne as a maroon spiritual maroon man , he was also teh grand father of the Moore town Maroon Colonel . Nanny was forced to sign, because her brother kojo did sign, so the was left to fight alone . So Nanny had to sign reluctantly .
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 .
@@sealie15 I thought God was omnipresent. When we think of God or pray, I feel God is near in a spiritual sense which gives us comfort and satisfaction knowing that God is everywhere including in the church. We shouldn't worry like God said like Bob said. We can agree to disagree.Thanks for responding. B.T.W...Rastafarian?
Aben or abeng in Twi language is an ivory horn used by Akans in Ghana 🇬🇭. Accompong or Akompong, kojo, Kwasi Akan names. "Pong, Pon or P)n means greater, "Bese" is colanut, "Anansi" is spider 🕷 in Twi.
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
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
so much have been removed from our history I don't think we will ever learn and understand our true self because of the hidden treasures and constant abuse of politics and religions forced upon us.... things we are forced to believe is true
Up date 2019- look cockpit is about to be fracked--unless JA act now. From Freetown- can not wait to be among you lot- if I get to JA. Maybe our real Ancestors pull you lot back with me to SL. The Maroon - church- my family - name is part of that church, built on arrival. BELOVED.Kongo Rules.
You see, in the Maroon tradition, when one is a Medium you play the drum to certain beat and cure can be done, it is like a 3 rd or 4 eye . A long unbroken Maroon tradition, must live on ,the Missionary can not stamp this own ! Just the picture of Jesus is not enough for maroon culture .
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. We know Jamaica was the dumping ground for the rebellious Amerindians, and most of them escape, especially those from New England. I agree Africans were amongst them before those treaty, but not all returned run-away slaves.
No maroon adapted european names.those names were imposed on the africans sold as slaves in the west by the white slaver as part of his Family property.those names Were the surnames of the slavers.given to blacks to identify them as belonging to That slaver family. It was not allowed to keep African names as a slave in america..so no africans could Find thier kidnapped family And rescue them . Even if you tried to register Your african name you could Be totured and executed by whites. So only some maroons Who freed themselves were able to use thier african names And that also pissed off the british and white slavers. See movie of kunta kinte.. So after 400.years enslaved ... How do you expect them to know their true african names ??? Dont be stupid. Thats why now we try to do Dna test to find our closest tribe. In africa to take those names.but most will never know their african surnames Because african needs to get Dna samples from dead slaves And find the living desendants In jamaica..america.to reconect those families. It can be done ..thats a big Salution to restore our ancestral roots and get rid of Our fake european names. African govts must .make that A.goal. blacks did not choose White names it was.forced upon them.
@@ተተተ-ነ9ሐ if you were a maroon. You would know that what i said is true.you are a fake troll. Get out of our buisness you Nimicompoop....how many Times have you n been To accompong..?? YOU JUST SAW OUR HISTORY .ONI DUCUMENTRY ..YET YOU SAY ITS A LIE...? You not even black.!!most likely a white .PO.S... Just look at your avatar...says it all...IM A Maroon... You moron.
notice most of this knowledge ain't been taught at school cause we are still in mental slavery force upon us by the British and all we are taught is to love and treat dem with the most respect
I love this I’m actually finding about me real history thank u 🙏🏾❤️ big up my maroons and big up my last name Ferguson I knew it was important the owners for the video please write me on Instagram @sade_bubblas please my family history was strong and my heart is telling me to come home 🏝 ❤️🙌🏾🙏🏾
Hi Ina L. The white guy in the church is me, David Ingleman. I helped out with the Trans-Atlantic Maroon Connection project, and co-wrote and co-directed the documentary. You are watching it on my channel. I hope you enjoyed the film.
@@davidingleman1692 So you basically wrote some of your schit into our history. Did you even share with that young female narrator how you make a living from doing stuff like this? I saw so much of it in the academy, you folk write alot of crap about folk not like you and make a good living from cultural imperialism. You folk really have some nerve.
@@lividkitten Ok livin kitten. I am a krio from Sierra Leone with Maroon relatives. When are you going to start funding and making your own authentic documentaries? Looking forward to it!
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.
Oh lord I was wondering when the xenophobia was going to start I am Krio some of my relatives are also natives Sierra Leonians Please stop with your Lies, I am mixed with everything An the funny thing is some people always ask if I am Nigerian What can I say to That
The maroons were repatriated to Sierra Leone in 1800 from Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. The history of Sierra Leone states that the Maroons were fierce warriors from Ashanti origin. Slaves from Sierra Leone were mostly taken to Georgia and South Carolina in the US and less so to the Caribean and Cuba forming the core culture of the Gullah People in the US. The maroons significantly influenced the Krio language of Sierra Leone. The Maroon and Nova Scotian influence on Krio explain why the Krio language of Sierra Leone is so similar to the Deep Patois or maroon spirited language of the Maroons and also similar to the Gullah language of SC and Georgia in the US.
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.
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
Jamaican Maroons u still exist in the settlement of 1738 not realizing the wonderful gift of validation it gave you to be owners of Jamaica. Contact Diana McKintire Price and ask her to contact me and I will reveal your future greatness.
Jamaica Maroons it is time u realize that u are the true grass roots Jamaians. Let me show u how to capitalize on your heritage instead of being a subsistent economy in the mountains of the country u own.
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..
@@lividkitten+ What, are you serious right now? Do you understand America is north, south, central america and its surrounding islands. French and English colonial jurisdiction don't have anything to do with whether a country is part of the Americas. You saying it as if someone had place it their prior to Americas continental formation and it didn't always belong to North America, all what I saying is documented!!!!
@@lividkitten+ so let me ask you this? Before Canada was colonized by the British and shared with French, what continent you think that geographical area was apart of, because this is of my deepest concerns, to me it seems obvious, but things that are obvious might not be so obvious do to some status quota of selective intelligence, but who knows? I might be crazy and in actuality you can't literally just travel over to Canada, from US and vice versa.
@@chad7554 Well if you want to go that far back where the continents were all connected that place was called Pangea, look it up. If you want to translate an understanding to what the Natives would say, the place "is" called Turtle island.
@@chad7554 Nova Scotia is in Canada. If you want to talk about world geography, if you want to talk colonial mapping / cartography and these so called boundaries, I don't think that is what the video was talking about. The video made the claim that a group of people were transported to different places one being what came to be known as Canada. You sound like you may be in the USA, so visit the Natives there and ask them their interpretation of your question. I actually don't care to refer to colonial interpretations and I realize they are also something to pay attention to. Hopefully that clarifies.
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.
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.
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...
New town is different from furry town . We have cudjoe town ,gingertowm then kojo new town called trelawney town then original furry town then new Furry TOWN
this bible holy ghost is same one that parted us. forget bible/jezuz and call on our true 1 ancestors. ben kongo not ben israel. Freetwon is enjoyment place.. nice
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.
@ZicoPookyBoo You actually sound like someone not to take seriously. Have fun doing your research. Just remember that Nova Scotia is in Canada (to start). Best.
Moor town? These people are Moors and don't even know it . So unfortunate. Why are they calling themselves African? They speak of there ancestors as they were different people.
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
Nobody said Moroons are Krios Moroons are part of history of Freetown but nobody said they are Krio They are of Krio but they are not Krios There were several waves of Migrations Do u know what the word Krio means Its means mixed ....... moroons are part of the Krios Heritage but it's not Krios as a whole Even our language has French in it........mon ami.....it means my friend in French But in Krio its means dont disturb me. M
@ladyjam.The church is called Maroon Church because it was built by the Maroons from Nova Scotia and their descendants are the primary members of that church. Their settlement was around the area where the church was built.Some Maroons I know,having moved to other parts of Freetown became members of other churches and then decided to return to their roots and came back to the church although it meant a long Sunday journey to attend service.
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.
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...
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.
No one is saying the Maroons were originally from Sierra Leone. They were only repatriated to Sierra Leone in 1800 from Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. Even the history of Sierra Leone states that the Maroons were fierce warriors from Ashanti origin. By the way, slaves from Sierra Leone were mostly taken to Georgia and South Carolina in the US forming the core culture of the Gullah People. The maroons significantly influenced the Krio lamguage of Sierra Leone. It's why the Krio language of Sierra Leone is so similar to the Deep Patois or maroon spirited language of the Maroons and also similar to the Gullah language of SC and Georgia in the US.
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...
Stop saying Accompong, the name is Achampong. Koramati is Komanteng. These guys are so ignorant that After telling them the names, language they are using come from Ghana and specifically Akan/Twi, they still SAY AFRICA when they are talking about their ancestors.
A people without a knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots...good documentary
checking in in 2020
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.
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!
You from Suriname are you part Javanese?
This is a very good documentary, very informative and nicely done. Great display of the history of Maroons in Jamaica and their connection to ancestors in Sierra Leone. I appreciate all of your hard work, I learned so much!
Thank you for an amazing documentary of our ancestors struggles and victories I learn so much and it brought tears of how we can never give up the fight for freedom and truth.
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
Great video learn something today...we are great people of Jamaica...👑👑
Very informative, and interesting
Well done to you joy was in my spirit love my people.
We need more of our history in schools , i didn't know that there was 2 maroons war , i thought it was just one, my maternal grandmother was a maroon . i didn't know that maroons was deported to Halifax Canada.
Jamaica first deported was to nova Scotia Canada then to Sierra Leone africa
You have to read bro. No one will teach you
If we knew da true truth whether da States r North Gate dey ways would not being able to corrupt us
U probably missed that class - 1739 and 1795 maroon wars in jca
Beautiful documentary, thank you!
I found this video to be very informative.
I have actually learnt something about my history that I never knew before. Great job!!!
Best video in a while.big up Salone..big up Jamaica, big up Bahamas..teach dem
Up👍 Thank you for this video
Heaven high
Nyankipong bless
Ashe Ashe..Amin♥
Oh my god, I identified with every thing I saw on this video, wow this is truly amazing, I wish to know more
My people ♥️ thank you for this video, love from the uk 🇬🇧
Asantis/Akans use camouflage leaves 🍃 method to fight their enemies, eg defeat the British when they had wars with them so that is very important display among Akans in Ghana during festivals like Akwasidae, Odwira
After all this documentary has taught me about the brutality of the British, Canute is baptized in a Christian church. Really? no wonder black people are still conquered. Rightfully so because we insist on insulting the ancestors. The more we find out about our history, the more we hold on the customs and traditions of those who murdered, and terrorized our ancestors.
I can say this quite uniquely as Maroon and a direct descendant of Nanny . When you face the evilest force on earth ,demonic force, it is the Arch angel , who must rise up to defend you ! The Most High God YHWH , is still the ultimate Ruler ! He fears no lies or no one in the universe. I can attest to this fact !!!
@@tyroneosborne2091 Yhwh will deliver us shalom
@@tyroneosborne2091 *Nanny was a OBEAH woman not a Jew, so you & Yahweh can get outa here...😈🔥*
@@marciabryce1379 *YOU & THE moron you replied to are either agents or the perfect examples of what the original comment is about!!!😈🔥*
@@riflechess7693 Ah agent dem man, bout nuh bloodklaat yhwh , Nyankopon ah di Maroon people supreme god
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.
Wow...please add the areas name in VA. I would love to swing by and visit when heading that way in the future. The video taught me a lot as a Jamaican living in the US and I never new persons identifying as maroons lived/live in that part of the states.
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.
This send chills up
My spine as a Jamaican
Good work Nicole and Kenute
Our ancestor Alfred Osborne as a maroon spiritual maroon man , he was also teh grand father of the Moore town Maroon Colonel . Nanny was forced to sign, because her brother kojo did sign, so the was left to fight alone . So Nanny had to sign reluctantly .
TY for sharing!❤💛❤
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 .
You will NEVER get "spiritual satisfaction" in a church 😏
Solid
Facts !!!!
Where Sealie?
May Davis “where” what do you mean! Anyone with common sense know God cannot fit into church 🤣
@@sealie15 I thought God was omnipresent. When we think of God or pray, I feel God is near in a spiritual sense which gives us comfort and satisfaction knowing that God is everywhere including in the church. We shouldn't worry like God said like Bob said. We can agree to disagree.Thanks for responding. B.T.W...Rastafarian?
Aben or abeng in Twi language is an ivory horn used by Akans in Ghana 🇬🇭. Accompong or Akompong, kojo, Kwasi Akan names. "Pong, Pon or P)n means greater, "Bese" is colanut, "Anansi" is spider 🕷 in Twi.
And entakumah.....thought I would remind you, my grand mother thought us those stories as when we were growing up.
is not accompong
it is Achempong and it is a name given to people of ghana especially for asante's
Very instead I fine this I been to Africa could ave drive there but never new there was maroons there wow
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
Long live the true history of the aboriginal of Jamaica the socall Maroon's
Bigups Cudjoe!!!
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
The Maroon fresh cut can do wonders, at times teh Ancestors can guide you how to use teh plants , especially if you a adorn a priest .
Why nobody ever publicly talk about the treaties... Or nanny?...
so much have been removed from our history I don't think we will ever learn and understand our true self because of the hidden treasures and constant abuse of politics and religions forced upon us.... things we are forced to believe is true
Up date 2019- look cockpit is about to be fracked--unless JA act now. From Freetown- can not wait to be among you lot- if I get to JA. Maybe our real Ancestors pull you lot back with me to SL. The Maroon - church- my family - name is part of that church, built on arrival. BELOVED.Kongo Rules.
You see, in the Maroon tradition, when one is a Medium you play the drum to certain beat and cure can be done, it is like a 3 rd or 4 eye . A long unbroken Maroon tradition, must live on ,the Missionary can not stamp this own ! Just the picture of Jesus is not enough for maroon culture .
Really informative. I do believe Maroons are indigenous to Jamaica and the Caribbean , and this video indirectly confirms that.
Stop your bullshit, we know who we are.
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. We know Jamaica was the dumping ground for the rebellious Amerindians, and most of them escape, especially those from New England. I agree Africans were amongst them before those treaty, but not all returned run-away slaves.
What prevent the Maroons from using traditional names and adopted English ones?
Christianity, although many adoped pagan germanic names thinking they were christian names
No maroon adapted european names.those names were imposed on the africans sold as slaves in the west by the white slaver as part of his
Family property.those names
Were the surnames of the slavers.given to blacks to identify them as belonging to
That slaver family.
It was not allowed to keep
African names as a slave in america..so no africans could
Find thier kidnapped family
And rescue them .
Even if you tried to register
Your african name you could
Be totured and executed by whites. So only some maroons
Who freed themselves were able to use thier african names
And that also pissed off the british and white slavers.
See movie of kunta kinte..
So after 400.years enslaved ...
How do you expect them to know their true african names ??? Dont be stupid.
Thats why now we try to do Dna test to find our closest tribe. In africa to take those names.but most will never know their african surnames
Because african needs to get
Dna samples from dead slaves
And find the living desendants
In jamaica..america.to reconect those families.
It can be done ..thats a big
Salution to restore our ancestral roots and get rid of
Our fake european names.
African govts must .make that
A.goal. blacks did not choose
White names it was.forced upon them.
@@oludummo4593 you're not a jamaican maroon, you know very little on this subject, its best you don't get involved and tell lies on us
@@oludummo4593 how did the free non slave descendants of kojo and accompong come to aquire christian names?
@@ተተተ-ነ9ሐ if you were a maroon.
You would know that what i said is true.you are a fake troll.
Get out of our buisness you
Nimicompoop....how many
Times have you n been
To accompong..?? YOU JUST SAW OUR HISTORY .ONI DUCUMENTRY ..YET YOU SAY
ITS A LIE...? You not even black.!!most likely a white .PO.S...
Just look at your avatar...says it all...IM A Maroon...
You moron.
We are coming from Africa we need howor reparations form the British queen of England must pay 400 year of slavery
Africa calling .Black Star liner.***
My grandmother is a Nugent...
notice most of this knowledge ain't been taught at school cause we are still in mental slavery force upon us by the British and all we are taught is to love and treat dem with the most respect
Where is the sound?
Yes Sir
I love this I’m actually finding about me real history thank u 🙏🏾❤️ big up my maroons and big up my last name Ferguson I knew it was important the owners for the video please write me on Instagram @sade_bubblas please my family history was strong and my heart is telling me to come home 🏝 ❤️🙌🏾🙏🏾
Well done, thanks for sharing. Who is what appears to be a white guy in the church?
Hi Ina L. The white guy in the church is me, David Ingleman. I helped out with the Trans-Atlantic Maroon Connection project, and co-wrote and co-directed the documentary. You are watching it on my channel. I hope you enjoyed the film.
@@davidingleman1692 So you basically wrote some of your schit into our history. Did you even share with that young female narrator how you make a living from doing stuff like this? I saw so much of it in the academy, you folk write alot of crap about folk not like you and make a good living from cultural imperialism. You folk really have some nerve.
@@lividkitten Ok livin kitten. I am a krio from Sierra Leone with Maroon relatives. When are you going to start funding and making your own authentic documentaries? Looking forward to it!
Jamaican Maroons u are sitting on a gold mine of prosperity: all u need is direction. History is on your side. Contact me?
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.
What were you watching? Could not be this video.
Oh lord I was wondering when the xenophobia was going to start
I am Krio some of my relatives are also natives Sierra Leonians
Please stop with your Lies, I am mixed with everything
An the funny thing is some people always ask if I am Nigerian
What can I say to That
The maroons were repatriated to Sierra Leone in 1800 from Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. The history of Sierra Leone states that the Maroons were fierce warriors from Ashanti origin. Slaves from Sierra Leone were mostly taken to Georgia and South Carolina in the US and less so to the Caribean and Cuba forming the core culture of the Gullah People in the US. The maroons significantly influenced the Krio language of Sierra Leone. The Maroon and Nova Scotian influence on Krio explain why the Krio language of Sierra Leone is so similar to the Deep Patois or maroon spirited language of the Maroons and also similar to the Gullah language of SC and Georgia in the US.
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.
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
Our ancestors were not Slavs (that is where the word slav(e) comes from) - they were PRISONERS OF WAR (P.O.W.'s)
Jamaica Maroons u r a powerful catalist for future prosperity of your people contact me an I will show u how!
Which Africa?....
By the way it’s Cudjoe, not Kojo.
Chill Pop it’s the same meaning Monday born
@@nanafrima5522 lol modern day ppl
kwadwo,kojo and cudjoe
all meant the same as Monday born in Ghana
Jamaican Maroons u still exist in the settlement of 1738 not realizing the wonderful gift of validation it gave you to be owners of Jamaica. Contact Diana McKintire Price and ask her to contact me and I will reveal your future greatness.
Jamaica Maroons it is time u realize that u are the true grass roots Jamaians. Let me show u how to capitalize on your heritage instead of being a subsistent economy in the mountains of the country u own.
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..
For your information Nova Scotia is in Canada, and Canada is not in America. Unless you mean Nova Scotia Canada is in North America.
@@lividkitten+ What, are you serious right now? Do you understand America is north, south, central america and its surrounding islands.
French and English colonial jurisdiction don't have anything to do with whether a country is part of the Americas.
You saying it as if someone had place it their prior to Americas continental formation and it didn't always belong to North America, all what I saying is documented!!!!
@@lividkitten+ so let me ask you this? Before Canada was colonized by the British and shared with French, what continent you think that geographical area was apart of, because this is of my deepest concerns, to me it seems obvious, but things that are obvious might not be so obvious do to some status quota of selective intelligence, but who knows? I might be crazy and in actuality you can't literally just travel over to Canada, from US and vice versa.
@@chad7554 Well if you want to go that far back where the continents were all connected that place was called Pangea, look it up. If you want to translate an understanding to what the Natives would say, the place "is" called Turtle island.
@@chad7554 Nova Scotia is in Canada.
If you want to talk about world geography, if you want to talk colonial mapping / cartography and these so called boundaries, I don't think that is what the video was talking about.
The video made the claim that a group of people were transported to different places one being what came to be known as Canada.
You sound like you may be in the USA, so visit the Natives there and ask them their interpretation of your question. I actually don't care to refer to colonial interpretations and I realize they are also something to pay attention to.
Hopefully that clarifies.
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.
* ~> Keep the Faith ~>%
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.
Mhmm, I heard of the blood and calabash but this is news to me...
Suh a mute unuh put pan my history,,,shm
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...
New town is different from furry town . We have cudjoe town ,gingertowm then kojo new town called trelawney town then original furry town then new Furry TOWN
this bible holy ghost is same one that parted us. forget bible/jezuz and call on our true 1 ancestors. ben kongo not ben israel. Freetwon is enjoyment place.. nice
So why some saying y'all from Africa if you clearly understand maroons were brought to Africa?...
How mister Murdock the came from Africa to Jamaica then to nova Scotia afterwards to Sierra Leone. Do you get it now? Kmt.
Yow Mr murduck
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.
@ZicoPookyBoo Actually Israel is Palestine. I'm not getting how your post relates to the comment. I won't be watching that video.
@ZicoPookyBoo You actually sound like someone not to take seriously. Have fun doing your research. Just remember that Nova Scotia is in Canada (to start).
Best.
Moor town? These people are Moors and don't even know it . So unfortunate. Why are they calling themselves African? They speak of there ancestors as they were different people.
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
Nobody said Moroons are Krios
Moroons are part of history of Freetown but nobody said they are Krio
They are of Krio but they are not Krios
There were several waves of Migrations
Do u know what the word Krio means
Its means mixed ....... moroons are part of the Krios Heritage but it's not Krios as a whole
Even our language has French in it........mon ami.....it means my friend in French
But in Krio its means dont disturb me.
M
Naa ya not Nanny
@ladyjam.The church is called Maroon Church because it was built by the Maroons from Nova Scotia and their descendants are the primary members of that church. Their settlement was around the area where the church was built.Some Maroons I know,having moved to other parts of Freetown became members of other churches and then decided to return to their roots and came back to the church although it meant a long Sunday journey to attend service.
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.
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...
Glad people start to know we were the 1st here...and slavery was in reverse...
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.
No one is saying the Maroons were originally from Sierra Leone. They were only repatriated to Sierra Leone in 1800 from Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada. Even the history of Sierra Leone states that the Maroons were fierce warriors from Ashanti origin. By the way, slaves from Sierra Leone were mostly taken to Georgia and South Carolina in the US forming the core culture of the Gullah People. The maroons significantly influenced the Krio lamguage of Sierra Leone. It's why the Krio language of Sierra Leone is so similar to the Deep Patois or maroon spirited language of the Maroons and also similar to the Gullah language of SC and Georgia in the US.
@kweku hayford . It is very obvious that Maroons are descendants of some Ghanaian tribe. Remember all the slaves shipped from Cape Coast ?
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...
Stop saying Accompong, the name is Achampong. Koramati is Komanteng. These guys are so ignorant that After telling them the names, language they are using come from Ghana and specifically Akan/Twi, they still SAY AFRICA when they are talking about their ancestors.
We aren't just Ghanaians we are nigerian, Congolese, fulani and a few other nations
@@ተተተ-ነ9ሐ Exactly
That is tje PanAfricanism of Nkrumah in practice 🤣🤣🤣
LoL we had a burial ground for the British because they was being massacred....