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Coromantee, Coromantins,
Coromanti or
Kormantine (derived from the name of the
Ghanaian slave fort Fort
Kormantine in the
Ghanaian town of Kormantse, Central...
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paternal grandfather was
Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who
descended from the
Coromantee (or Akan)
slaves shipped to
Jamaica from the Gold Coast,
today known as...
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lesser degree: Yoruba,
Ibibio people and Igbo people. Akan (then
called Coromantee)
culture was the
dominant African culture in Jamaica.
Originally in earlier...
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Colony of
Jamaica in the 1760s. Led by Akan
people (then
referred to as
Coromantee but
originally from
around Kromantsie in the
Central Region of Ghana)—tribes...
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acknowledged by
enslaved Akan or
Coromantee living in Jamaica.
Jamaican slave owners did not
believe in
Christianity for the
Coromantee and left them to
their own...
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ascension to
becoming a
hegemony of most of the area of present-day Ghana.
Coromantee, the English-language term for
enslaved Akan people, came from the original...
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resulting in a high
number of
military captives being sold into slavery.
Coromantee ex-soldiers now
slaves and
other Akan
captives were
known for various...
- uprisings,
mainly prompted by
newly arrived,
highly militarized Fante or
Coromantee groups from Cape
Coast and
Ashanti Empire. On 31 July 1690, a rebellion...
- Ndyuka, and in Jamaica,
spoken by the
Jamaican Maroons, also
known as the
Coromantee. The
cultures of the
descendants of
escaped slaves in the
interior of...
