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Jamaican Maroons

Africans and their descendants who liberated themselves from enslavement and formed independent settlements.
Class type of: African Jamaican, maroons Q6127426
Jamaican Maroons
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Facts

6 properties
Instance of
ethnic community, ethnic group[6]
Ethnic group
maroons, Akan people[2][3]
Country
Jamaica, Sierra Leone[4][5]
Subclass of
African Jamaican, maroons[7][8]
Language used
Jamaican Patois, Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language[9][10]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject African diaspora[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Jamaican Maroons en Leeward Maroons en Maroons en Windward Maroons ar المارون الجامايكيون fi Jamaikan maroonit fr Nègres marrons de Jamaïque fr Maroons ja ジャマイカのマルーン ja ウィンドワード・マルーン ja ジャマイカの逃亡奴隷 ja マルーン ja リーワード・マルーン pt Maroons jamaicanos tr Jamaika maronları zh 牙買加馬龍人 zh 馬隆 zh 马隆人
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Freebase ID
/m/02pt515
Topic's main category
Category:Jamaican Maroons

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Country 2
Sierra Leone, Jamaica
Ethnic group 2
Akan people, maroons
Subclass of 2
maroons, African Jamaican
Instance of 1
ethnic group
Language used 1
Jamaican Patois
Participated in 1
First Maroon War
Topic's main category 1
Category:Jamaican Maroons
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Summary

Jamaican Maroons is an ethnic community[1].

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Origins and Family

Ethnic identities include maroons[2], an ethnic group[12] and Akan people[3], an ethnic group[13], in Ghana[14].

Related Entities

Jamaica Sierra Leone

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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