By 1787, this band of guerrilla fighters posed a serious enough threat that the Georgia legislature sent a force of state troopers to find and destroy the maroon village. Although six maroons were ...

The two main maroon groups at that period were Leeward maroons led by Captain Cudjoe and Windward Maroons led Queen Nanny. Maroon a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean ...

A retelling of the story of Queen Nanny, national heroine of Jamaica, in keeping with her broader significant real and symbolic roles as a shaman of the forests, healer, priestess and protector of ...