While on the subject of the Maroons and Accompong Town, here are a couple of more photos. These photos are about 30 years old.
On my first hike out into the Cockpits on the way to the Peace Cave where the Treaty to end the Maroon Wars was signed in 1739, took this picture of my best friend "Marshall" climbing the Karst limestone formations.
Before you reach the Peace Cave you find an area called Big Ground. This is where the invading British Soldiers set up camp and were attacked and suffered enough casualties in the middle of the night to convince King George to sue for peace and end the conflict.
This is a picture of Marshall and some youth under the Kindah "One Family" Tree. This is about a 200 year old mango tree where Cudjoe used to assemble his people and his warriors to plan strategy to defend against the advancing British Army marching up from Balaclava. They could watch them for about 3 days that it took to reach the area. This is called the "One Family" tree because the Maroons were from many tribes in Africa and they had to put aside tribal allegiances to become "One Family" to defeat the British invaders.
Although Marshall was a practicing Rastafarian, he went without his locks for several years. This is one of my favorite pictures of him. He died this past year from complications caused by unchecked cancer spread.
