Oracabessa, Jamaica

Jamaica

Oracabessa, Jamaica carries 25 connections with 593 other places across 9 topics, spanning music, history, government, and literature. Its parish of St. Mary sheltered Jamaican Maroons who had escaped slavery and lived independently in the mountains. Baptist missionary James Phillippo established Free Villages there after emancipation, giving freedmen land for homes, schools, and churches. Poet Lorna Goodison named her 2013 prize-winning volume after the town, and the coast near Oracabessa served as a filming location for an early James Bond film.

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