Steep hills, towering cliffs and a dense limestone forest shroud this remote mountain village, born out of the decades-long struggle between English colonizers and runaway slaves.Back then, the drums of resistance could be heard across the rugged terrain as bands of freed and escaped slaves outwitted and ambushed their enemy.

In 1739, the British empire sued for peace and signed a historic treaty giving the once-enslaved Africans autonomy and recognition as free people — 68 years ahead of Britain’s ban of the brutal trading in enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Read More