Maroon Scholar, Hoshaiah Eon El Khalil lectures: Queen Nanny and other Warriors

Tonight Join The Gist of Freedom as we talk to Maroon Scholar Hoshaiah Khalil about the World Premiere  of the film Queen Nanny  - Monday, October 19, 2015 At The United Nations, New York City http://bit.ly/RSVP_QueenNanny

Carlota Lukumí…

Carlota and another enslaved woman named Fermina led an organized rebellion at the Triumvarato sugar plantation.

Carlota was kidnapped from her Yoruba tribe, brought in chains to Cuba as a child and forced into slavery in the city of Matanzas, working to harvest and process sugar cane under the most brutal of conditions.

She was bright, musical, determined and clever. Fermina was locked up after her plans for the rebellion were discovered. Using talking drums to secretly communicate, Carlota and her fellow warriors freed Fermina and dozens of others, and went on to wage a well-organized armed uprising against at least five brutal slave plantation operations in the area. Carlota’s brave battle went on for one year before she was captured.

Credit: Carlota Leading the People (after Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830), Oil on Canvas, 72″x60″, © 2011 by Lili Bernard. For more information on the work visit