Into Jamaica’s Maroon Country

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  08.25.09 | 10:59 AM ET

Photo by rappensuncle via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Matt Carroll recently ditched the resort and went looking for the descendants of the Maroons, the historic communities of escaped slaves that formed in the Jamaican interior and fought a running battle with the British for more than a century. His story is in the Guardian.