‘On Behalf of Our Ancestors’: Jamaica Maroon Leader Apologizes for Ancestors Helping Britain Quell Uprisings After the Group Won Their Own Freedom; Gets Mixed Reaction from Community
One of the leaders of the descendants of Jamaica’s Afro-Indigenous people has apologized for helping enforce slavery centuries ago on the Caribbean island. The Maroons were Jamaica’s first enslaved Africans who fought and freed themselves from captivity. They agreed to a treaty in 1739, to maintain their freedom and land granted by the British under…
