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HSFA 1991.12.2
Received from Jefferson Miller in 1991.
The Human Studies Film Archives also holds an edited release print of
Outtakes from a film project shot in eastern Jamaica among the descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. Documented are aspects of Maroon culture including communal labor (with digging songs), Kromanti drumming and healing rights, and cultivation and marketing of agricultural produce.
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