Queen Nanny of the Maroons, the only woman among Jamaica’s seven national heroes, had opposed the signing of the centuries-old British treaties agreeing to take down slave rebellions and return ...

Nanny is one of the most famous leaders of the Maroons, warriors who fought across the “New World,” including in South America, the United States and the Caribbean, resisting slavery in uprisings.

Since she was a child Niomi Daley (aka Ms Dynamite) has been fascinated by stories of Nanny of the Maroons, an extraordinary Jamaican woman who successfully led a revolt by slaves against the ...

who was to become known as “Nanny of the Maroons,” and her brothers, survived the ordeal and arrived in Jamaica. They later escaped from the slave plantations and fled into the mountains ...

MANY Jamaicans have come to accept the image of Nanny on our $500-note as a true representation of the maroon warrior. After all, drawings of other national heroes dutifully capture what they ...

Here she speaks to the BBC News website about why the Maroons, and especially their revered woman leader Nanny, matter today. That they could stand up and face death rather than be oppressed is a ...

She is known as Nanny Queen of the Maroons, and is a heroine, a folk hero who featured somewhere in the First or Second Maroon War between the runaway Africans and the British between 1731 and 1739.

During a period of 30 years, she contributed towards the escape of more than 1,000 slaves and helped them resettle in the Maroon community called Nanny Town. Nanny Town, placed as it was in the ...

Queen Nanny is said to have been a leader of the Maroons, a community which had escaped slavery in Jamaica in the 18th Century. Little about her life is historically confirmed, but she is thought ...