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.

She is known as Nanny Queen of the Maroons, and is a heroine ... have confessed to a certain cloud of mystery surrounding the facts about her, evidence of her heroism, leadership and influence ...

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 ...

Currently, there are only seven such national heroes and Queen Nanny of the Maroons is conspicuous as the only woman.

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 ...

who was to become known as “Nanny of the Maroons,” and her brothers, survived the ordeal and arrived in Jamaica. They later escaped from the slave plantations and fled into the mountains ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, yesterday commissioned into service HMJS Nanny of the Maroons at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard Headquarters in Port Royal ...

A retelling of the story of Queen Nanny, national heroine of Jamaica, in keeping with her broader significant real and symbolic roles as a shaman of the forests, healer, priestess and protector of ...