Release of Akwantu - The Journey

[Fred Stripe]

Interesting. I also thought that the diversity of the people came from pirates from other countries who stayed on land after the ship left?

[Accompong]

Interesting. I also thought that the diversity of the people came from pirates from other countries who stayed on land after the ship left?

Fred, I am sure that some small part of the "diversity of the people" around the island of Jamaica may have come from "pirates from other countries who stayed on land after the ship left" but not so in Accompong Town.

These people are still to this day "tribally oriented" and resistant to strangers who wish to join there community. Some Jamaicans from around the island have married into the core community and a few others have been accepted as being able to live in their midst and a handful of "affaren" people (such as myself) have too been welcomed to live there. But these changes are relatively new (within the last 25 years or so) developments since the gate to the community now remains open and outsiders are welcomed to visit.

I am very sure that any pirate or similar people who would have "stayed behind" would have stayed behind in a shallow grave or at the bottom of a sink hole somewhere.

I have been a frequent visitor (for the past 25 years) and have lived for long stays mostly in the past 15 years and have been an avid student of their Culture.

Awhile back in 1995, I wrote a brief history you might like to read at http://www.jamaicans.com/info/jahistory/maroons.shtml which might shed some light of how the Maroons came to live in the Cockpit Country in "The Land of Look Behind".

Peace and Guidance