Gottlieb, C: The Mother Of US All

Name: Gottlieb, C: The Mother Of US All
Brand: Africa Research & Publications
SKU: 9780865435650-V
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By Karla Gottlieb

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"The Mother of Us All" is an ysis of the history of Queen nanny, the great 18th century leader of the Windward of Eastern Jamaican Maroons. The importance of this great leader's struggle against British colonial empire and its institution of slavery on the island of Jamaica has previously been largely ignored. To correct this gap, oral histories, including myths, legends, songs, ceremonies and local language are yzed, as well as written texts including documents, journals of the era, historical land grants and peace treaties, poems, novels, critical texts, historical texts and children's books. The Maroons of Jamaica were ex-slaves who had escaped from slave ships and plantations to form viable communities in remote and inaccessible parts of the country. Queen Nanny, warrior, general, spiritual adviser and, some say, messiah to the Maroons, led her people from their base camp of nanny Town in the rugged Blue Mountains of Eastern Jamaica, to repeated victories against the British at the height of their world domination, particularly from 1724 to 1739. Repeatedly, the Maroons were vastly outgunned and outnumbered, with often 500 half-starving Maroons fighting against 5,000 of the best-provisioned and best-armed soldiers of the British Empire. But warfare was only on of the talents. In the area of supernatural and religious interest, or "Science": to the Maroons, Queen Nanny was known as a great healer and extremely powerful obeah woman (holder of secret sacred African knowledge). The author yzes the importance of Queen Nanny from cultural, military, historical, and religious points of view. This book marks an attempt to integrate a key figure of New World history into her rightful place as the leader of a critical resistance movement in Jamaica in the first part of the 18th century.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 119
Release Date:: 2000-07-01
Publication Date:: 2000-07-01
Publisher:: Africa Research & Publications
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0865435650
ISBN13:: 9780865435650
Weight:: 204 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 214 cm
Thickness:: 10 cm

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