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Coromantee, Coromantins,
Coromanti or
Kormantine (derived from the name of the
Ghanaian slave fort Fort
Kormantine in the
Ghanaian town of Kormantse, Central...
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lesser degree: Yoruba,
Ibibio people and Igbo people. Akan (then
called Coromantee)
culture was the
dominant African culture in Jamaica.
Originally in earlier...
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ascension to
becoming a
hegemony of most of the area of present-day Ghana.
Coromantee, the English-language term for
enslaved Akan people, came from the original...
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paternal grandfather was
Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who
descended from the
Coromantee (or Akan)
slaves shipped to
Jamaica from the Gold Coast,
today known as...
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island of
Barbuda in the
eastern Caribbean,
primarily of
Fante and
other Coromantee ancestry. The
Barbudans speak Barbudan Creole and the
Barbudan dialect...
- Ndyuka, and in Jamaica,
spoken by the
Jamaican Maroons, also
known as the
Coromantee. The
cultures of the
descendants of
escaped slaves in the
interior of...
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Caribbean from the
region that is modern-day
Ghana were
referred to as
Coromantees. Many of the
leaders of
enslaved people's
rebellions had "day names"...
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practiced by
enslaved Akan or
Coromantee living in Jamaica.
Jamaican slave owners did not
believe in
Christianity for the
Coromantee and left them to
their own...
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today are
currently debating his
possible origins.
Bussa was
likely a
Coromantee, yet
there is also
reasonable speculation that he may have
descended from...
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Denmark Vesey.
Historian Douglas Egerton suggested that
Vesey could be of
Coromantee (an Akan-speaking people) origin,
based on
remembrance by a free black...
