in jamaica they included captain leonard parkinson the leader of the maroons and grandy nanny and ashanti known as the maroon priestess. in barbados lusa and igbo war chief through rebellion the insurgents found a name and identity. all throughout the mountainous areas of jamaica you have these communities of formally in slave people who have escaped and they learn the territory they learn to cultivate crops there and they learn to fight as well harassing plantations taking gunpowder getting new recruits and maintaining a building communities in the mountains where this becomes increasingly a problem for the british and by the 2nd 3rd decade of the 18th century it breaks out into major war and the british aren't even sure they're going to be able to maintain the island. the uprising spread to other islands and then to the coast of africa wars rage in the slave capturers hunting grounds notably in senate gambia where muslim religious leaders blamed slave trade goods for corrupting society. these outbursts of violence plunged the sugar industry into a crisis which also had an impact in euro

prussians with their 3 forts surpass the french on the gold coast in today's gonna the fantail and ashanti rented europeans plots of land to build their forts the europeans establish trading posts and fortresses all along the atlantic coast from the a way territory to the congo kingdom equitorial africa became the world's principal source of slaves. in this accounting documents written in 1688 we learned that over an 8 year period it shipped 60783 slayings. each cost the royal african company 8 to 12 pounds sterling the equivalent of between 950 and 1500 euros today they were all bought with trade goods the demand for slaves was so high that the europeans pressured their african partners to help them plan and rationalize and industrialized their system of mass deportation. slaves were often bought on credit. and sold out mt throughout european ships would calm they would have a whole cargo full of textiles different metal ware or. tobacco whatever and they these would be given to global call merchants extended to them on credit and then the merchants would go inland with those goods and bu