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Article: REMEMBERING KOJO: HISTORY, MUSIC, AND GENDER IN THE JANUARY SIXTH CELEBRATION OF THE JAMAICAN ACCOMPONG MAROONS.
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- Black Music Research Journal
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- March 22, 1998
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The January Sixth celebration of the Maroons of Accompong, Jamaica, commemorates both the birth of the Maroon leader, Kojo (Cudjoe),(1) and his victory over the British, which resulted in the signing of the peace treaty of 1739. The Accompong Maroons(2) are descendants of Africans taken to Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who successfully resisted enslavement by the British rulers of the island and settled in a remote, mountainous region called the Cockpit Country. Accompong is a town of about 1,600 inhabitants located in St. Elizabeth parish in the western part of Jamaica approximately thirty-five miles southeast of Montego Bay.
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