“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.”

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Sidney Peddie (sid-nee ped-dee)

Colonel Accompong Maroons

IMAGE SOURCE: Unattributed in Janet Gritzner, “Jamaica.” Facts on File. 2009. | TEXT SOURCE: “The Jamaican Maroons.”YouTube. CaribNation TV. 15 Apr. 2015.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “We are very proud to know that we got freedom long before emancipation because of our bravery and the fight our people took.”

QUOTE QUESTION: How do you intend to carry freedom forward?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “On January 6, 2002 the Accompong Maroons gathered to celebrate the day Cudjoe, then leader of the Maroons, routed the British forces in 1736. Here Colonel Peddie is flanked by Maroons wearing traditional warrior dress.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What is your traditional warrior dress?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a YouTube video posted by CaribNationTV. The photo appears in a school library reference book.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What are the best media platforms to share your People’s stories with young readers?

“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.”

Sidney Peddie (sid-nee ped-dee)

“We are one, bound by the spirit of an island and Bilali the slave. Bound by high tide, fields, gossip, smoke mullet and our faith.”

“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.”