Audience members argue with each other as another shouts "Shut up!" Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley faced another room of hearted constituents at a town hall in Northwood, Iowa, on Wednesday.

The treaty, signed under British governor Edward Trelawny, granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits and a certain amount of ...

Special holidays include June 23, when Charles Town holds a Quao Day celebration to mark the signing of the peace treaty between the British and Colonel Quao in 1739. Every January 6, Accompong ...

Accompong was Cudjoe's brother, who established a town that was named after him. During the festivities, the population of Accompong town grows from 500 to 8,000. Vendors occupy the city center with ...

Her affirmation comes amidst a rising debate amongst some Maroons as to whether Accompong Town in St Elizabeth, or Packity in St. James, is the location of the real Kindah Tree, the place where the ...

Today, five recognized Maroon communities persist: Accompong Town, Moore Town, Charles Town, Scott's Hall and Flagstaff. These communities maintain their rich traditions, rooted in West African ...

It is also based on a tree Campbell encountered while he lived in Jamaica called the Kindah Tree located in Accompong Town. The name of the exhibit also refers to Jamaica and the artist’s desire to ...

The Maroons reside in Accompong, a town that was founded in 1739 when their leaders, Captain Cudjoe, and his sister, Queen Nanny, defeated the British in a ferocious guerilla warfare that led to a ...

Captain Cudjoe and Captain Accompong and the other founders of Maroon independence had passed away,and “ Old Montagu” reigned in their stead, in Trelawney Town. Old Montagu had all the pomp ...