Without A Crown

About the Book

WITHOUT A CROWN tells of the eighteenth century’s most indomitable female warrior and heroine, Queen Nanny of The Maroons. An ex-slave freedom fighter who led her people out of the bondage of Plantation Slavery to establish a free nation of people existing to this day. She resisted the awesome military might of GREAT BRITAIN then the most dominant world power, by awakening in her followers the courage that induced them to willingly pay the ultimate sacrifice to remain free.

The sage of Queen Nanny and the Maroons is the spark of freedom that ignited a conflagration that spread across the earth, and caused the thinkers of the world to reevaluate their moral principles and put an end to history’s darkest and most shameful era.

Queen Nanny won and outlived her war to die peacefully at an old age, content in the belief that history would eventually write the final chapter. Lest any may forget, the Caribbean Island Nation of Jamaica has proudly placed her portrait on its currency as a tribute to its only female heroine.

About the Author

LEE McKENZIE was born in the Island Nation Of Jamaica in the Caribbean, son of Philip McKenzie a financially independent land owner of Scottish descent, and grandson of Margaret Moffat Lettman daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Moffat. His great grandmother Elizabeth was twelve years old when slavery was abolished in Jamaica August 1st 1838, and Joshua a giant of a man and rebellious run-away slave was twenty five years old, when he wandered across the island to finally settle after abolition in the western parish of Westmoreland. He knew his great grand mother who died at the age of one hundred and twelve, and as a boy listened with interest to tales she told of her experiences as a young slave girl. At an early age he migrated to the United Kingdom where he was exposed to the lifestyle and customs of the English and Europeans during stages of his education and employment. Historically inclined, he visited several cities developed during the seventeenth century to facilitate the expanding colonialization of the British Empire. He was particularly interested in the effects colonialization had on both the United Kingdom, and his island home, and the legacies inherited by the descendants of both experiences. He presently resides in Miami, Florida with his wife Marjorie and family.