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Jamaica: Maroon festival

Written byGeorgia Popplewell
Posted 6 January 2006 16:11 GMT

The Caribbean Beat Blog notes that the Accompong Maroon Festival is being celebrated today in Jamaica. The maroons are “the descendants of slaves who were freed by the Spanish and fled to Jamaica's untouched South Coast in the pursuit of freedom, and who live there to this day.”

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