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The Rise and Fall of the Maroons

Yolanda Issacs

Wednesday July 22,2020

Dear editor,

The maroons are escaped slaves from Africa who settled in mountains of Jamaica. They use to work
on the sugar cane plantations and by any chance they went to the hills for freedom. Some Maroons

allegedly for survival were considered to capture slaves and returning them to the slaves’ masters for
survival. Cudjoe a former Maroon leader and Nanny fought for freedom of the maroons. Nany was
believed to be a spiritual woman, with her supernatural gift she could sense when the opponents were
coming in to attack. Some of these gifts and the blowing of the Abeng were forms of communications

used by the Maroons to defeat the British soldiers.

The Maroons from the Leeward (western) and Windward (eastern) signed peace treaties with the
British and were offered peace, friendship an overall freedom among them. The treaty also rewarded

the Maroons lands as such they have rights as any other sovereign nation to be governors of their
lands. This refers to the Maroons as a sovereign nation. Today the Maroons argued they were for
liberation then and even to this day. As a result, the Maroons I consider are being marginalized, their
rights I consider are being violated. This leads me to make recommendations on strategies to be

implemented by the government to improve the existence of the Maroons.