“Cudjoe (18th century maroon freedom fighter) was taught and observed that the land the maroons occupied belonged to all of them and its amicable distribution and use must be perpetuated.”

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Mar 18

Milton MacFarlane (milll-tun mick-far-lane)

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IMAGE SOURCE: Unknown artist in Frida Dawkins, “Cudjoe: The celebrated Maroon leader who overcame the British in the 1730s.” Face2Face Africa. 12 Jun. 2018. | TEXT SOURCE: Mario Nisbett. “The Work of Diaspora: Engaging Origins, Tradition and Soverei… — IMAGE SOURCE: Unknown artist in Frida Dawkins, “Cudjoe: The celebrated Maroon leader who overcame the British in the 1730s.” Face2Face Africa. 12 Jun. 2018. | TEXT SOURCE: Mario Nisbett. “The Work of Diaspora: Engaging Origins, Tradition and Sovereignty Claims of Jamaican Maroon Communities.” PhD thesis. 2015.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “The old West African code of communal living was transported almost intact to the Jamaican mountains, enabling the Maroons to govern themselves with internal peace, according to the old ways.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What land ethics have been passed down by your People?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Cudjoe, the descendant of a West African slave transported to Jamaica was known as the greatest Maroon leader after he fought the then Madagascan leader of the Leeward Maroons – and won by killing him.

IMAGE QUESTION: How do you defend yourself and your People?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The text is from a doctoral thesis and the image is an unattributed drawing.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How can you find hidden media representations of your People?

“Cudjoe (18th century maroon freedom fighter) was taught and observed that the land the maroons occupied belonged to all of them and its amicable distribution and use must be perpetuated.”

Milton MacFarlane (milll-tun mick-far-lane)

“We try to teach our children the culture and remind them that they can be great. We stick to our heritage and we intend to carry on as free Maroons as long as the world exists.”

“Indigenous women in Jamaica live a role model lifestyle to redirect African people to a real image of compassionate family life, a unit that was totally intentionally destroyed in slavery.”