Queen Nanny of the Maroons (c.1685-1755) was a Jamaican slave born in Ghana. She was captured as a child, and sold into slavery where she worked at a sugar cane plantation, until she and some close friends decided to escape further inland, into an area known as the Blue Mountains. There already existed Marion communities […]
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Unknown or forgotten history: Female Gladiators (Gladiatrix Documentary)
A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. The Real-Life Hunger Games: Meet the Ancient Women … TOP TEN GREATEST FEMALE WARRIORS IN HISTORY Top 10 Badass Female Warriors – Listverse by yuhime Tomoe Tomoe Gozen, […]
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