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being gunned down and executed with his body being beheaded and displayed in the town centre to signal that the rebellion had been suppressed and that freed slaves and Tacky’s followers were vulnerable.

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Tacky’s War/Rebellion was an uprising led by Akan slaves in Jamaica from May to July in 1760 and was the most significant uprising between the 1733 slave revolt in St John and the 1791 Haitian Revolution. The leader of the group was called Tacky (Takyi) who was a Fante from the

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Central Region of modern Ghana. He was a paramount chief in Fante land prior to being enslaved. His plan was to take over Jamaica and make the island an independent Akan state. Him and his followers killed many slave masters and freed many Africans. The rebellion ended in Tacky

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customs as methods of communicating with ancestors and deities, animal sacrificing and sacred drumming and dance.

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Santería is an Afro-Caribbean practise that is performed in Cuba that is primarily of Yorùbá origin. Santería in Spanish means “Worship of Saints”. Santería is influenced by and synchronised with Roman Catholicism. The enslaved Yorùbá people carried with them various religious

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Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar AKA Cardi B is of Dominican 🇩🇴 & Trinidadian 🇹🇹 descent.