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Ayiti 1805

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Day Five: Queen Nanny!

The woman who would one day be known as Queen Nanny was born into slavery in Jamaica during the seventeenth century. England conquered Jamaica from Spain in 1655; in the ensuing exile of the Spanish elite, many enslaved people took the chance to escape into the hilly, forested interior of the island, joining escapees and indigenous Taino already there and forming increasingly large communities; they became known as the Maroons.

Nanny, like variations of “grandmother” worldwide, is an honorific, and many female Maroon leaders were known by it, but only one earned the title of “Queen” as well. The community led by Nanny and her likely-brother, Quao, was one of the oldest, and according to oral tradition long predated the Spanish exile. From Nanny Town, a fortified settlement in the Blue Mountains, Nanny organized raids, freed slaves, and eventually fought a full-fledged guerilla uprising against the British.

In 1740, after a decade of fighting, the British agreed to a treaty with Queen Nanny, granting her people recognized control over land that became New Nanny Town. Nanny was already an elder by this point, and is believed to have died by 1760, when the British put a white superintendent in charge of her town, renaming it Moore Town after the governor.

Despite this, though, the Maroons of Moore Town endured; indeed, over a thousand of their descendants still live there today. Queen Nanny’s memory lives on not only there, but across Jamaica, where she is regarded as a national heroine.

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🇯🇲 Queen Nanny of the Maroons. More here at Wikipedia

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Queen Nanny of the Maroons

Nanny, known as Granny Nanny, Grandy Nanny, and Queen Nanny was a Maroon leader and Obeah woman in Jamaica during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Maroons were slaves in the Americas who escaped and formed independent settlements. Nanny herself was an escaped slave who had been shipped from Western Africa. It has been widely accepted that she came from the Ashanti tribe of present-day Ghana.

Nanny and her four brothers (all of whom became Maroon leaders) were sold into slavery and later escaped from their plantations into the mountains and jungles that still make up a large proportion of Jamaica. Nanny and one brother, Quao, founded a village in the Blue Mountains, on the Eastern (or Windward) side of Jamaica, which became known as Nanny Town. Nanny has been described as a practitioner of Obeah, a term used in the Caribbean to describe folk magic and religion based on West African influences.

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Good Afternoon 💜 Happy Saturday ☺️

Art from Jamaican Artist Renee Cox's Queen Nanny of the Maroons Series

https://www.reneecox.org/queen-nanny-of-the-maroons

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Perhaps as a testament to the rigors of Caribbean slavery, Nanny's representations require that her body absorb the extremities of slave violence in a manner befitting her memory. Her corporeal sacrifice is full of imagery and internal weaponry-bulletproof and magnetized.

from The Repeating Body by Kimberly Juanita Brown

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"Chillin with Liberty" Renee Cox, The Harn Museum, 2022 ~ a treat of postmodern photography

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6:24 AM EST March 9, 2024:

Sons of Kemet - "My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons" From the album Your Queen Is a Reptile ( March 30, 2018)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: New British Jazz

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Chapter 6 : A House on the Hill. A Place called Moore Town.

Gran Ma's ( RIP) House. Moore Town, Portland -Jamacia.

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Historical Indigenous Women & Figures [6]:

Queen Nanny: the leader of the 18th century Maroon community in Jamaica, she led multiple battles in guerrilla war against the British, which included freeing slaves, and raiding plantations, and then later founding the community Nanny Town. There are multiple accounts of Queen Nanny's origins, one claiming that she was of the Akan people from Ghana and escaped slavery before starting rebellions, and others that she was a free person and moved to the Blue Mountains with a community of Taino. Regardless, Queen Nanny solidified her influence among the Indigenous People of Jamaica, and is featured on a Jamaican bank note. Karimeh Abboud: Born in Bethlehem, Palestine, Karimeh Abboud became interested in photography in 1913 after recieving a camera for her 17th birthday from her Father. Her prestige in professional photography rapidly grew and became high demand, being described as one of the "first female photographers of the Arab World", and in 1924 she described herself as "the only National Photographer". Georgia Harris: Born to a family of traditional Catawba potters, Harris took up pottery herself, and is credited with preserving traditional Catawba pottery methods due to refusing to use more tourist friendly forms in her work, despite the traditional method being much more labour intensive. Harris spent the rest of her life preserving and passing on the traditional ways of pottery, and was a recipient of a 1997 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States. Nozugum: known as a folk hero of the Uyghur people, Nozugum was a historical figure in 19th century Kashgar, who joined an uprising and killed her captor before running away. While she was eventually killed after escaping, her story remains a treasured one amongst the Uyghur. Pampenum: a Sachem of the Wangunk people in what is now called Pennsylvania, Pampenum gained ownership of her mother's land, who had previously intended to sell it to settlers. Not sharing the same plans as her mother, Pampenum attempted to keep these lands in Native control by using the colonial court system to her advantage, including forbidding her descendants from selling the land, and naming the wife of the Mohegan sachem Mahomet I as her heir. Despite that these lands were later sold, Pampenum's efforts did not go unnoticed. Christine Quintasket: also known as "Humishima", "Mourning Dove", Quintasket was a Sylix author who is credited as being one of the first female Native American authors to write a novel featuring a female protagonist. She used her Sylix name, Humishima, as a pen name, and was inspired to become an author after reading a racist portrayal of Native Americans, & wished to refute this derogatory portrayal. Later in life, she also became active in politics, and helped her tribe to gain money that was owed them. Rita Pitka Blumenstein: an Alaskan Yup'ik woman who's healing career started at four years old, as she was trained in traditional healing by her grandmother, and then later she became the first certified traditional doctor in Alaska and worked for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. She later passed on her knowledge to her own daughters. February 17th is known as Rita Pitka Blumenstein day in Alaska, and in 2009 she was one of 50 women inducted into the inaugural class of the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: a mixed race woman of African American and Montaukett heritage, Banks was a well known author who was a regular contributor to the the first magazine that covered Black American culture, and wrote a column for a New York publication. She wrote of both Native American, and Black American topics and issues, and helped sculptor Richmond Barthé and writer Langston Hughes get their starts during the Harlem Renaissance. She is also credited with preserving Montaukett language and folklore due to her writing in her early career.

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THE AFRICAN QUEEN WHO DEFEATED THE BRITISH IN JAMAICA This is the story of the legendary Queen Nanny of the Maroons. An African woman born in present-day Ghana kidnapped and sold into slavery in Jamaica, she became a symbol of resistance, unity and power on the island. She built an autonomous community of emancipated Africans, mounted raids to free others and was successful in defeating British colonials who were forced into a peace treaty with her community after nearly two decades of war. She is a reminder of the African roots, pride and strength of African people, who did not submit to slavery but instead fought for their freedom until the end. This is also another example of women who played a pivotal role in anti-colonial struggles around the world. Does she inspire you?

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Y’all are so stupid and antiblack. Sure we’re talking about a fictional franchise called Pirates of the CARIBBEAN but somehow people think there were no Black pirates. Never mind that Black Caesar, an actual Black man, served under Blackbeard of all people. Never mind that Queen Nanny of the Maroons was going around being a pirate and freeing slaves. Never mind the legend of Jacquotte Delahaye, who even though it is fiction has a literal book coming out about her, exists. Never mind the stories of Black pirates from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean existing. But sure. Let’s get mad at the potential fact that Ayo Edebiri might be leading the new start up of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Cuz Black pirates didn’t exist 🙄.