The slaves from Ghana were known in the Americas and the West Indies as 'Coromantine' Negroes, a name derived from the coastal port of the same name where the English built their first lodge probably in 1631. They were considered the most courageous, the most proud and the most unyielding of all the slaves and were often the leaders of slave mutinies.

The slaves from Ghana were known in the Americas and the West Indies as 'Coromantine' Negroes, a name derived from the coastal port of the same name where the English built their first lodge probably in 1631. They were considered the most courageous, the most proud and the most unyielding of all the slaves and were often the leaders of slave mutinies.

Edward Long, who write a history of Jamaica in 1774, called them 'haughty, ferocious and stubborn' and mentioned a slave uprising in which thirty-three Coromantines, most of whom had been newly imported, murdered and wounded no less than nineteen whites in the space of an hour.

The Jamaica House of Assembly, when describing a series of slave revolts during the middle of the eighteenth century, reported that all these disturbances have been planned and conducted by the Coromantine Negroes who are distinguished from brethren by their aversion to husbandry and the martial ferocity of their dispositions.

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