Resource Information
History
THE ACCOMPONG TOWN MAROONS: PAST AND PRESENT Colonel M.L. Wright, 1992.
The Jamaican Maroons, National Library of Jamaica
Robinson, C. (1969). The fighting Maroons of Jamaica. Collins and Sangster.
Campbell, Mavis C. The Maroons of Jamaica 1655- 1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal. Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, 1988.
Carey, Bev. The Maroon Story. St. Andrew: Agouti Press, 1997.
Dunkley, D. A. Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World. Maryland: Lexington Publishers, 2013.
Gotlieb, Karla. A history of Queen Nanny: Leader of the Windward Maroons. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2000.
Kopytoff, B.K. (1973). THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA; AN ETHNOHISTORICAL STUDY OF INCOMPLETE POLITIES, 1655-1905.Robinson, Carey. The Fighting Maroons, Jamaica. William Collins and Sangster, 1974.
Senior, Olive. Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. St. Andrew: Twin Guinep Publisher, 2003.
Sherlock, Phillip & Bennett Hazel. The Story the Jamaican People. Kingston & Princeton: Ian Randle Publishers & Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998.
The Laws of Jamaica Volume I. Alexander Aikman, 1792.
Current Activities & Posts
State of Accompong Website https://stateofaccompong.org
Lydia Gibson, Physical Anthropologist, https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/lydia-gibson
The Accompong Maroons—Interview with Chief Richard Currie & Cabinet Members | TVJ All Angles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4Me6bD9nQ
Maroon Festival 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDMQ4CQ7kOU
2024 TOUR IN ACCOMPONG TOWN ST ELIZABETH JAMAICA(part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObeZYOxgVQ
Selected Research
DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell. Remembering Kojo: History, Music, and Gender in the January Sixth Celebration of the Jamaican Accompong Maroons. Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1/2 (Spring - Autumn, 1998), pp. 67-120. Published By: Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago.
Harcourt Fuller & Jada Benn Torres (2018) Investigating the “Taíno” ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: a new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 43:1, 47-78, DOI:10.1080/08263663.2018.1426227
Torres, J.B. (2019), A Parrot among John Crows: Diversity as Risk and Reward. American Anthropologist, 121: 474-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13217
Madrilejo, N., Lombard, H., & Torres, J. B. (2015). Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of Jamaica's Accompong Town Maroons. American journal of human biology, 27(3), 432-437.
Gibson, Lydia Nicole. 2020. In the Name of Conservation: the impact of ecological changes, neoliberal policies, and social and environmental imaginaries on traditional parrot hunting among indigenous Jamaican Maroons. UCL Department of Anthropology, Thesis submitted in the fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology.
Cawley, Robert & Wright, Cornell & White, Oral & Rowe, Donnell & Gibson, Lydia. (2020). New and increasing threats may have significant impact on Jamaica's black-billed parrot Amazona agilis. Oryx. 54. 441-441. 10.1017/S0030605320000265.
Kopytoff, B. K. (1987). Religious Change among the Jamaican Maroons: The Ascendance of the Christian God within a Traditional Cosmology. Journal of Social History, 20(3), 463–484. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788108
Kopytoff, B. K. (1976). Jamaican Maroon Political Organization: The Effects of the Treaties. Social and Economic Studies Vol. 25:2.