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Nanny's Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience
Werner Zips
History
Nanny's Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience
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In 1975, Nanny was declared the first and, is to date, the only female National Hero in Jamaica. Though revered as a leader of the Maroons – that group of runaway slaves who fought the British during the 18th century and established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica, maintaining their freedom and independence – much of Nanny’s story and that of the Maroons has been from oral tradition which paints a different picture from the Eurocentric historiography of colonial sources.

Using an ethnohistorical approach that combines political and legal anthropology with an African interpretive framework, Anthropologist Werner Zips takes Nanny’s key role in the Maroon societies to probe into the African political, legal, social and religious experiences throughout the periods of slavery, colonial rule and postcolonial nation building to provide a new perspective on the Maroons beyond the African cultural retentions in the New World.

Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-665-9
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface: The Porcupine Fights for Justice
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Encounters with History – History of Encounters
Chapter 1: Ethnohistorical Appraisal of the ‘Historical Present’
Chapter 2: The Logic of Maroon Political Praxis: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes
Chapter 3: Routes from the Roots – Africa in Jamaica
Chapter 4: A Comparative Dimension of West Africa and the Caribbean: On the Structural History of Chieftaincy among the Maroons
Chapter 5: Engendering History: Comparative Reconstruction of Female Political Participation in Jamaica and West Africa
Chapter 6: Sanctified by Blood Sacrifice – The 1738/1739 Peace Treaty as the Basis for Maroon Sovereignty
Epilogue: The ‘Maroon’ Struggle as Part of an African Freedom Struggle
Bibliography
Appendix
Map 1: Map of Ghana Showing the Akan Region
Map 2: Asante Expansion during the Eighteenth Century
Map 3: MaroonTerritories in the Western Hemisphere
Map 4: Slave Uprisings and the Maroon Settlements in Jamaica
Map 5: British Forts in Jamaica Around 1790
Map 6: Cockpit Country Controlled by the Leeward Maroons
Index
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