Queen Nanny of the Maroons
c. 1686-1755 · African Diaspora (Caribbean, Jamaica) · Early Modern
Maroon leader in Jamaica who organized resistance against British colonial forces.
Portrait: Jamaica1962 · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- African Diaspora (Caribbean, Jamaica)
- Known as
- Maroon leader in Jamaica who organized resistance against British colonial forces.
Queen Nanny of the Maroons (c. 1686-1755) endures among the great of African Diaspora (Caribbean, Jamaica). Maroon leader in Jamaica who organized resistance against British colonial forces. Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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