Nanny is one of the most famous leaders of the Maroons, warriors who fought across the “New World,” including in South America, the United States and the Caribbean, resisting slavery in uprisings.

Queen Nanny of the Maroons, the only woman among Jamaica’s seven national heroes, had opposed the signing of the centuries-old British treaties agreeing to take down slave rebellions and return ...

The subject of first night’s second show is the Jamaican heroine Queen Nanny, the spiritual and military leader who led the Maroons into battle with the British in the 1720s. Sung and danced ...

Here she speaks to the BBC News website about why the Maroons, and especially their revered woman leader Nanny, matter today. That they could stand up and face death rather than be oppressed is a ...