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Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly-enslaved escapees, the majority of them West African in descent, called the Windward Maroons, along with their children and families. [ 1 ]
Two monuments to historical figures were dedicated on 14 October 1999. The first of these honors Nanny of the Maroons, a female warrior of Asante descent who waged a guerrilla campaign against the British during the First Maroon War. Nanny's monument reproduces the sound of the abeng, a traditional instrument used by the fighters. [11]
After the 1740 treaty, it appears that Quao and Nanny parted ways. It seems that Nanny took her supporters east to what would later become Moore Town on the eastern fringes of the Blue Mountains, while Quao took his people west to central Jamaica, and formed a community in a town that later came to be known as Crawford's Town on the western edge of the Blue Mountains.
By 1720, Nanny and Quao had organized and were leading the settlement of Windward Maroons; it was known as Nanny Town. Nanny Town was organized similarly to a typical Ashanti tribe in Africa. After the First Maroon War , a deed from the colonial government granted Nanny more than 500 acres (2.4 km 2 ) of land where the Maroons could live and ...
The Monument to Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey, National Heroes' Park; The Monument to Rt. Excellent Norman Manley, National Heroes' Park; The Monument to Rt. Excellent Sam Sharp, National Heroes' Park; The Monument to Rt. Excellent Nanny of the Maroons, National Heroes' Park; Monument to the Rt. Excellent Sam Sharpe, National Heroes' Park
The community of Moore Town was founded by one of the Maroon Leaders, "sister" to Cudjoe, Nanny, and during the First Maroon War they lived in Nanny Town. [10] [12] Nanny refused to sign the Peace Treaty of 1740 between the British colonial government and the Windward Maroons, but acquiesced in the uneasy truce that followed. Nanny accepted a ...
A historical and ecologically rich swath of land in El Paso was designated a national monument by President Joe Biden on Tuesday.. The announcement making Castner Range, an almost 7,000-acre ...
"The Immortal 32", 1936. monument to 32 men from Gonzales who died at the Alamo, as well as the "Survivors of the Alamo Massacre" monument. [7] Richard Andrews Monument, 1932. San Antonio. Designer: Louis Rodriguez. Monument to the first casualty of the Texas Revolution. [8] In April 2018, the "Monuments and Buildings of the Texas Centennial ...