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Blue Mountain Media
publish Caribbean folk tales and proverbs. Use our free online interactive eBook of Jamaican proverbs, and listen to talking book samples of our excellently produced stories for children. West Indian culture in books and audio
enquiries (phone or text) BOOK JAMAICA TONICS Phonics Fun ANANCY STORIES ANANCY, & PRINCESS AESOP JAZZY FABLES Love Proverbs eBOOKS samples Quote the ISBN number to your local book shop (UK) and request they make a special order, these titles are readily available. If you have difficulties use the contact button or phone us Orders from outside the UK, |
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| HEROES OF SLAVERY ABOLITION 200th Anniversary of the abolition of British slavery in law (on paper). Much of the focus will be on the brave abolitionist who risked their lives to bring about a change in inhuman laws. However there is an aspect of the study of slavery which has been used negatively in schools and universities, simply put the study of slavery can be used as a tool to humiliate people of African diaspora, there is a lot of emphasis on how Africans were defeated and brutalised with many lecturers relishing the chance to relive the inhumanity. |
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| There is one fact that is strangely almost always left out in these discussions, and that is the fact that slaves, both men and women won many battles against unbelievable odds and in many cased had complete victory over what could be classed as the hyper power of armies of enslavement we need to hear more about heroes of abolition. THE NUMBERS |
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| Maroon Warrior hero Most slave communities refused to accept slavery and fought tirelessly (sometimes to the last man woman and child) against brutal armies of enslavement. Cudjo the Mountain Lion is one of Jamaicas greatest heroes, with only 300 fighting men and teenagers he defeated a British enslavement army of over 3000 fully armed and equipped soldiers (equivalent in todays terms to an army of 100,000 poorly armed soldiers facing an army of 10,000,000 as well equipped and trained as the modern American army of today) - one man fights ten. The victorious maroons won an independent homeland on the island of Jamaica. The treaty between the Cudjo maroons and the British government was signed in 1739. |
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