Slavery, Rebellion & Religion: Freetown's Maroons from Jamaica - Make Sierra Leone Famous Podcast
After a lifetime of hearing about and driving past St. John’s Maroons Church, this April I finally went in to find out how a slave rebellion that started in Jamaica ended with freedom in Sierra Leone.
The Maroon Church was built in 1808 on Westmoreland Street (named after Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica), now Siaka Stevens Street. Today the 200 year old church in the middle of Freetown still stands with the rafters built from parts of the ship that brought freed slaves from Jamaica to the Colony of Freetown now the capital city of Sierra Leone.
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