yr9_Leonard_Parkinson

My name i s Leonard Parkinson

A few facts that are interesting about me and my life is that I was one of the head leaders of the Jamaican Maroons. I became the leader of people's independance and their freedom and it made them so much more happier, this led to me and my people together fighting as a society against the british troops for 10 centuries in a row. To make this sound like sense, not made up jibber-jabber, Maroons is spanish for escaped slave, when I said that I was head leader of the Jamaican Maroons, I meant that I was head leader of Jamaican escaped slaves, as I was so good at it! Me as one of the leaders suggested to other slaves that we should escape to the mountains, and live away from the and live there so that the white people can leave us be and not hurt us. When I had been captured I hated to be punished and I was never a bad person to be around I just wanted to be free and not be harrased by white people and see my own people going through the same things as me! Everyone of us tried hard to escape the plantations. Me and my people fought desperately hard for our rights and every year for a hundred years we won our fight towards freedom.