Spencer Fearon

Overview

British middleweight boxing hopeful Spencer Fearon travels from south London to Jamaica with Rooke, expecting to find his ancestry intertwined with the familiar stories of slavery and powerlessness. But, on arrival, he finds that his surname derives from a powerful group of English colonisers, and that a branch of his family was the Maroons - a group of fearless freedom fighters who, in 1738, won independence from the British.