Tripatini contributor Evan098 writes:

"If you look at Jamaica’s green mountains, you see beauty. The locals see that too, but also freedom.

Because that’s where the maroons hid - escaped slaves who refused to live on their knees. They built villages deep in the jungle and fought back against the British.

Uncle Roy told me about Nanny of the Maroons, the woman who led them. “They say bullets couldn’t touch her,” he said. He wasn’t joking or exaggerating. He said it like he was talking about his grandmother.

Those hills aren’t just hills. They are the memory of resistance."

Read more in his post Feeling Jamaica´s History and Heritage.