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Nanny Of The Maroons: Jamaica’s Warrior Queen
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AFRICANGLOBE – Queen Nanny or Nanny (c.
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1685 – unknown, circa 1755), Jamaican National Hero, was a well-known leader of the Jamaican Maroons in the eighteenth century. Much of what is known about Nanny comes from oral history as little textual evidence exists.
However, historical documents refer to her as the “rebels (sic) warrior woman,” and they legally grant “Nanny and the people now residing with her and their heirs . .
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. a certain parcel of Land containing five hundred acres in the parish of Portland . . .” (quoted in Campbell 177, 175). Nanny Town was founded on this land.
Maroons
The Maroons were defiant Jamaicans who fled their oppressive existence on slave plantations and formed their own communities in the rugged, hilly interior of the island.
They were considered