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MAROON LEADER COLONEL FRANK LUMSDEN, DIES AT 73!

 Colonel Frank Lumsden— Frank Lumsden, a Jamaican who worked as a commodities trader in Chicago before returning to his homeland to focus on reviving the Caribbean island’s Maroon culture in a backwoods community, has died. He was 73. For the last decade, Lumsden was the “colonel” of the Windward Maroon community of Charles Town, one of Jamaica’s four semi-autonomous Maroon tracts. Born on January 28, 1942, he was a descendant of 18th century escaped slaves called Maroons who won their freedom by raiding planters’ estates and repelling invasions of their forest retreats with a mastery of guerrilla warfare. Elected leaders were called colonels, a title bestowed on Maroon chiefs since their battles with the British army. Before he was elected leader in 2005, Charles Town was a moribund Maroon settlement that seemed destined to … Read entire article »

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