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Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of Jamaica's Accompong Town Maroons.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000

Madrilejo Nicole, Lombard Holden, Torres Jada Benn

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OBJECTIVES: The Accompong Town Maroons are descendants of enslaved Africans who successfully waged war against British colonial rule and established an independent community in western Jamaica. There are discrepancies regarding Accompong Town Maroon ancestry with some scholars noting ancestry from both Africans and Taínos, Jamaica's indigenous population, while other scholars only acknowledge African ancestry. We...

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PMID: 25392952
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22656

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