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Mountain Rebels: The Flight From Slavery of Jamaica's Maroons |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Eric P. Olsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 3,336 Words, 21,160 Characters |
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Blue Mountain lay silhouetted against a moonlit Jamaican sky. The languid murmur of insects drifted through the valley, rising and falling in a listless refrain. Minutes before a fierce downpour had roared down upon my tin-roofed cabin, sheltered some thirty-five hundred feet up in the highlands between the John Crow and Blue Mountain ranges. Now the ridges and peaks emerged in eerie luminescence, the lush vegetation wet and glistening.
Below my cabin I could just make out Ivy's house through the maze of dripping banana fronds. Sister Ivy Harris, a Maroon herbalist, was hosting my stay, introducing me to the rich traditions and history of the Maroons, and administering a variety of herbal teas and remedies.
Earlier that evening I had watched distractedly as she slashed about the bu...
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... State University, Salisbury, Maryland, March 2-April 28, 2002.
Additional Reading:
Bev Carey, The Maroon Story, Agouti Press, St. Andrew, Jamaica, 1997.
Phillip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett, The Story of the Jamaican People, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, 1998.
Werner Zips, Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica, Markus Wiener, Princeton, N.J., 1998.
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