The Jamaican Maroons | Africans who defeated the British 

A proud Maroon tribe warrior descendant ✊🏿🇯🇲

I’m happy these stories are being told and the culture is being preserved.

Aben(g) Means horn in Akan language. Horn of animal is Abeben which is still abeng. Till date its an instrument use by the Akan Kings for events and in the Kings Palace. Ashanti and Akans are truly linked to Jamaicans.

They don’t want our DNA to wake up this blood flows through a lot of people beyond the beautiful land of Jamaica this just gives me goosebumps watching these Gods talk 💯💯💯💯💯💯🧿

Koromantse is a town near Cape Coast , Ghana . It’s a predominantly fishing and farming community. They are known for their tall and strong stature - and the originators of booby traps and jungle warfare in Ghana .

Thank God, Africa and Jamaica has direct flights now. I will be visiting Africa soon. God is great; one love!

My grandmother was maroon... Thank you Rasta man, this is a wonderful video, such history...

Well done I Never Knew TV, well done! We must tell our own history!

My grandmother is a maroon, I always enjoy hearing these stories.

I love this I am so sad that we did not get to document most of our African history. Thank you 🙏 to this brilliant brother

This is absolutely gold!!! Thank you so much!!

Will Smith brother? Thank you for the history 👊

Coromantee derieves from Fort Coromantine in Kormantse, a coastal town in Ghana (then Gold Coast). The Maroons and the Coromantees are all West Africans ... Like the Brother said, mainly Akan (Ghanaian). For instance, Accompong is the Akan "Nyankopong" The Almighty.

Thank you so much. I am proud to be of such strong powerful, beautiful divine people🌞💛

Respect Go Out The Maroons 👏 Please Note History Cry Of The People 👏 Please

Salute!!! Respect!!! 💯 For telling the truth...80yrs of fighting for our freedom and we achieved it!!! We the new generation will continue to fight to keep it!!!💯🔥☝️🦾🏋️🇯🇲

Brilliant, thank you i Never Knew TV. Fantastic videos and I’m glad to see no thumbs down 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

I love this history lesson. My grandmother mother people's were maroon Ashanti tribe. The stories that told was quite similar . It interesting to note the guerilla warfare went on for eighties years.

I hope the Jamaican marroon connection to Suriname will become common knowledge in the near future🗣

much respect from we in ghana. cudjoe (kojo) is a "fanti" name for a man born on a monday. its a comon name in kormantse town and the central region of ghana where the fantis are from

Much Thanks for videos Love them keep the beautiful history coming plz.

also a big part of history missing , are how the pirates were able to take the Spanish gold so easily , a lot of their crews were from the Maroon Fighters

thank you for the video....im so proud that these are my ancestors.

Very knowledgeable king 👑 🇯🇲

They should mek 1o billion version of dat riddim. But seriously, that was heavy, beyond words.

We still watching!! Appreciating Historical Truth vs. what we have and have not been taught in Truth.

Amazing interview and story telling

The holding fort in Kromantsi is called Fort Amsterdam. Currently lies in ruins.

Big Up INeverkNewTV!

Yo Rasta man look like Will Smith... brothas all around the world

Same people are in Suriname too

Great vid!!!

Knowledge is good

Hello there, it's such a nice video you have done there👍🏻 I come up with a resource but couldn't back it up with reliable resource; which is some of the Jamaicans have roots from the Cushite people of Ethiopia too and H/selassie let Jamaicans reside in a place called "Shashemene" as a deserved reward in Ethiopia after His Majesty approved the dismissal of people being obtained as property. Would you do some research on that? Thank you💙

Just found out my great grandfather was a maroon. I had an idea because I've always been a rebel. I've also heard there are areas in Jamaica occupied by maroons that no one travel or else they may be killed. If this is true it is unfortunate because I'm very interested in knowing my history,

According to my Dna test as a Jamaican I did not find any Ghanaian in me but found matches in Senegambian/Guinea Bissau such as Fulani ,Balanta and Mandingo.I also found matches in the Kru of Liberia,the Mende of Sierra Leone, I found myself to be 54% Nigerian of Isan or Edo of Benin and 2% Arawak or Native America.

BLESS RASTA GOOD INFO BLESS NOTTON TEST

Long time no see L.L.R. Nice to hear you.

The Maroon story is an important aspect of Jamaican history. Contrary to twhat the gentleman in this interview is saying, the Maroons did in fact play a significant role in the capture and return of runaway slaves to their British overseers. The Maroons also helped the British to suppress the Christmas Rebellion of 1821. This aspect of history is well documented and indeed, is acknowledged by Maroon elders themselves. The Maroon history is a rich and fascinating story and they were formidable warriors and skilled marksmen when they fought against the British. After the first Maroon war ended in 1738, a treaty was agreed with the British and the Maroons were given parcels of land. Many years later, a second war was fought against the British, inspired by the French Revolution and the Haitian slave rebellion against the French on the western portion of the island of Hispaniola. After a harsh and costly struggle against the Maroons, the British were finally able to force their submission in 1795 in Trelawney. Some of the Maroons were then taken to Nova Scoria in British North America, now Canada.

Yes Rastafari, the Jamaican Maroons are collective slaves amounghts I and I, to form government to protect and free slaves from oppression. This was over 100 years before English presence in 1655.🙏🙏🙏

I still don’t understand the whole reasoning behind the maroons capturing runaways. I thought that was a compromise they had to make during the 80 years war with the British but the man’s saying that didn’t happen at all?

This man name is Lawrence and he is not an official historian of Accomopong who also happens to be a rasta.

What is the 🎶 Music at the first seconds ?

The Maroons are very unique. They mixed with the Arawaks so a lot of them do have Arawak DNA.

Nice. Some of his words he speak like the Northern Irish people.

Guys listen this made me pass my test

This was super informative. I will show all my kids and them to make them know say everything come from something and somewhere. Heritage, history and origin. Done know.

Great to hear how history has is it things make sense.

Nanny is a Superwoman .

my birth parish big up

Nanny never used a square drum

we have the fulani warriors in jamaica too

In those days and now people pick the family they want to keep , and the rest get broken by crime the law and system commits. I myself was sent for breaking up and know how other who didn’t go hold you between it and them.

Abeng is horn and you are right

They Brought ASANTE To America As Well❣️

Thank you E se from a Yoruba brother.

I am actually a direct descendant of this tribe, so great to know this information

My name is frimpong yes accompong could be Akropong. Yes Maroon are Ashanti because we on bare that names welcome brothers Love

The transatlantic slave trade narrative is false. We are the indigenous Caribs 🇯🇲

Bro I need to meet you brother 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Great interview. Really need to know more about did the maroons became slave catcher or not. I always thought it was apart of the treaty they signed. Any clarification???

Kwadwo or kojo is Ashanti name and aben is Ashanti name too

Hi who is the man in the video with the locks talking do you have a contact info for him I would like to talk with the brother

What is the name of the song that start this video please?

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Twi is pronounced like tsu-he

whats the song at the beginning

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. However the social, economic, and legal positions of slaves were vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.[1] Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records, such as the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1860 BC), which refers to it as an established institution, and it was common among ancient people.[2] Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, because it is developed as a system of social stratification.[3][4] Slavery was known in the very first civilizations such as Sumer in Mesopotamia which dates back as far as 3500 BC, as well as in almost every other civilization. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe resulted in the taking of large numbers of Christian slaves, especially amongst the Slavic peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Slavery became common within much of Europe during the Dark Ages and it continued into the Middle Ages. The Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, British, Arabs and a number of West African kingdoms played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600. David P. Forsythe[5] wrote: "The fact remained that at the beginning of the nineteenth century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom."[6] Denmark-Norway was the first European country to ban the slave trade in 1802. That’s just the first paragraph, slavery was around for thousands of years and the people sold there own people willingly for the cash or a trade.

#Jamaica

What's his name?

Personally the youth Bright

He got it wrong about the Ashanti somebody lied to him.

Is akropong is a town in a Ashanti is as same as acompong

The first slaves to Jamaica were not Ashantis, they were FANTES from KROMANTSI, KOMENDA. TAKY who led the uprising in 1760 in JAMAICA was from KOMENDA, the first Jamaicans that were shipped by the Spaniards to Europe in 1650 and to the Caribbean never met the Ashantis who were not coastal people. The Maroons originated from KROMANTSIN in the FANTE CENTRAL REGION OF GHANA were shipped to SURINAM and JAMAICA. NANE was not even an Ashanti, she was a descendant of FANTE people

I want to move here, tell more....

I think I have Ibo in me..

He is very educated hope he paid a lot. Big up Jamaica big ting will land. Lol

rastafari

The thumbnail looks the predator unmasked.

He looks like a rasta version of will smith

Wow Will Smith got old.

In reply to Jeremy Stone's twisted response to this beautiful video... Your innate colonial fear of the truth is still evident to this day, that you felt it was so necessary to pen such a toxic version of your colonist demise at the hands of the Maroons. It is not our responsibility to cure you of our inherited savage and inhumane ancestry. The colonial descendants of today speak of 'saving' the planet and all the numerous species which their ancestors have hunted to near extinction. I could go on but frankly why bother... you are who you are....

i just watched youtube by vagabond brothers about maroon. why are the maroons allowing this where are their video rights? this is not about race. its about a quality of lifestyle. why do you keep showing your riches- is it that you so not know you are rich. someone else will take what you see as little to naught and make it precious.

Most Jamaican are not Ghanaian or Nigerian.They are from west Africa.