Accompong
Sign in to saveAccompong (from the Asante name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century. They defended it and maintained independence from the Spanish and then later the British, after the colony changed hands.
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- Locality
- Accompong
- Region
- St. Elizabeth
- Country
- Jamaica
- Population
- 788
- Timezone
- America/Jamaica
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Jamaica
- Located in
- Saint Elizabeth Parish
- Image
- Accompong, Jamaica, early 20th century (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-015).jpg
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- inception
- 1739-00-00
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- Accompong
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Accompong Town under Accompong
- Accompong tries to take over Trelawny Town
- Accompong Town after Accompong
- After the deportation of Trelawny Town
- Government
- Maroon officers
- White superintendents
- Late 20th century to present
- Culture
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- References
Accompong (from the Asante name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century. They defended it and maintained independence from the Spanish and then later the British, after the colony changed hands.
Accompong is reportedly named after the son of Miguel Reid, the first African Maroon leader in western Jamaica originally from Ghana and allegedly the first leader of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town). This would make Accompong brother to Kojo or Cudjoe, and possibly Cuffee, Quaco and Nanny of the Maroons. Accompong Town was reportedly built by Kojo who assigned his Brother Accompong to watch over it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Accompong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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