Ethnic group, English name for enslaved Akan people in the Caribbean
For the songs named after the Coromantee people, see Koromanti.
Coromantee Coromantins, Coromanti, Kormantse
Regions with significant populations
Ghana, Jamaica
Languages
Current Jamaican English, French, Jamaican Patois, Maroon Spirit language Historical Akan, Twi
Religion
(originally) Kumfu, Obeah; (presently) Christianity and Revivalism
Related ethnic groups
Akan, Fanti, Ashanti, Jamaicans of African descent
Coromantee, Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine (derived from the name of the Ghanaian slave fort Fort Kormantine in the Ghanaian town of Kormantse, Central Ghana) is an English-language term for enslaved people from the Akan ethnic group, taken from the Gold Coast region in modern-day Ghana. The term was primarily used in the Caribbean and is now considered archaic.
Coromantee, Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine (derived from the name of the Ghanaian slave fort Fort Kormantine in the Ghanaian town of Kormantse, Central...
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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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...
resulting in a high number of military captives being sold into slavery. Coromantee ex-soldiers now slaves and other Akan captives were known for various...
Tano, Epo, and Anansi. According to Long, Akan (then referred to as "Coromantee") culture obliterated any other African customs and incoming non-Akan...
uprisings, mainly prompted by newly arrived, highly militarized Fante or Coromantee groups from Cape Coast and Ashanti Empire. On 31 July 1690, a rebellion...
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...
English Religion Akan religion Christianity Related ethnic groups Akan (Agona, Akuapem, Akyem, Asante people, Bono, Coromantee, Fante, Kwahu, Wassa, Sefwi)...
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"...
enslaved people from modern day Ghana in the Caribbean were referred to as Coromantees. Most day names among the Mole-Dagombas are usually given to girls, and...
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1760 Tacky's War Great Britain Colony of JamaicaMaroon allies Enslaved "Coromantee" people Rebellion suppressed 1763 Berbice slave uprising Society of Berbice...
evidence that traders sought Igbo women. Igbo women were paired with Coromantee (Akan) men to subdue the men because of the belief that the women were...
slave”. The Leeward Maroons most likely emerged in 1690 when there was a Coromantee rebellion on Sutton's estate in western Jamaica, and most of these enslaved...
incite a slave rebellion on the island. Court was crowned "King of the Coromantees" in a pasture outside the capital of St. John's. The coronation appeared...
Today, the Maroon Spirit language is used by Jamaican Maroons (largely Coromantees). Another distinct ritual language (also called Kromanti) consisting...
Telemaque; historian Douglas Egerton suggests that Vesey could have been of Coromantee (an Akan-speaking people) origin. Biographer David Robertson also suggests...
York: Neale. Leigh, Devin. 2019. "The origins of a source: Edward Long, Coromantee slave revolts and The History of Jamaica." Slavery & Abolition 40.2 (2019):...
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more than twenty black slaves, the majority of whom were believed to be Coromantee or Akan, gathered on the night of April 6, 1712, and set fire to a building...
family. His original name was Quashey, which is a common name for men of Coromantee origin. At the age of about 10, he was brought to England by his owner...
especially those of the Akan people of Ghana. The name Kromanti (or Coromantee) derives from Kormantin (or Cormantin ) where a historical slave fort...