Nanny's exploits in eastern Jamaica in the eighteenth century are both real and legendary, although, as a historical figure, she has more visibility than the majority of black women in pre-emancipation Jamaica. Some say she was married to Cudjoe, a Maroon leader, others to a man named Adou.
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There are differing views about whether or not she arrived in Jamaica as an enslaved woman or as a free black woman with enslaved people of her own. It is widely believed that she was born in Africa in the late seventeenth century and was transported to Jamaica with captives via the transatlantic trade. Her name (properly Nanani ) was derived from the Akan (Ghanaian) word meaning "ancestress" and "mother," and this establishes her ethnic origin. Nanny has emerged as the most important female figure in the history of the liberation struggles in Jamaica. Mary), and at Crawford Town, Nanny Town, and Moore Town in the Blue Mountain range of eastern Jamaica (the Windward Maroons). Elizabeth), Trelawny Town (the Leeward Maroons in the Cockpit country), Scott's Hall (St. Between 16, when the first Maroon War ended, Maroon Towns had been established firmly at Accompong (St.
The height of marronage activity came after 1655, when the English captured Jamaica from the Spaniards. Marronage, derived from Maroons, signifies flight to the forest or mountains (or by sea to other territories) and the formation of Maroon communities. Elizabeth being the parishes with the largest centers of Maroon settlement. Next to the Guianas, Jamaica had the largest Maroon community in the British-colonized Caribbean, with Portland, St. As such, her history is integrated with that of the Maroons, warriors fundamental to the history of resistance in the Caribbean. Nanny, a national heroine of Jamaica, was the leader of the Windward Maroons, ex-slaves living in interior communities in the eastern or windward area of Jamaica during colonial times.
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