The Akan woman from Ghana who ended up as freedom fighter and heroine in jamaica The Queen Nanny of the Maroons. She was a former slave stolen the akan people of Ghana brought to Jamaica during the late 1700s. Maroons escaped slaves who formed their own independent settlements. Nanny and her 4 brothers, who were Maroon leaders, escaped their plantation and hid in the mountains and jungles in Jamaica. They created a village in the Blue Mountains where they took ...