A Ghanaian of royal descent, Takyi, became a victim of slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and at the height of the Atlantic Slave Trade. He was shipped off from the Gold Coast to the Caribbean under unknown circumstances and eventually ended up as a slave on an Estate called Frontier (a plantation) in St. Mary Parish, Jamaica. 
Enoch Tackey, a founding member and CEO of Awaaff, researched his family lineage and concluded that Antonius Wilhelm Amo and Chief Takyi of Jamaica come from the same roots and enjoy the same lineage. They are all linked to the royals of Eguafo Kingdom, whose origins are from the royals of Takyiman/Techiman.
Our ancestors are from the Ghana Empire (Wagadu Empire), which then was situated in present day Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. They journeyed down through the Sahel to present day Ghana, where they created the first and most powerful state of the time called Bono State/Bonoman. Bono State split later into Akwamu, Denkyira and Takyiman. Further migration of their ancestors to the coastal areas of the Gold Coast led to the creation of new settlements like Eguafo, Winneba, Elmina, Cape Coast, Axim and others.
Chief Takyi spoke fluent English and is believed to have admitted to selling enemies from other Akan ethnic groups as slaves. He was later shipped himself into bondage.
Chief Takyi was respected and honoured by his fellow slaves on the plantation. The British seeing this became scared of his influence with the other slaves and had to avoid any chance of incitement and rebellion.

Chief Takyi was given the post of foreman, overseeing the affairs of his fellow slaves on the plantation. The British assumed he had been silenced by offering him this honourable position, but this was far from the truth, he never accepted his enslavement.

Chief Takyi together with other plantation slaves started an insurrection known as Tacky’s War or the 1760 Easter Rebellion of Port Maria, that became the second largest and most shocking rebellion of enslaved Africans in Jamaica.

The Easter Rebellion of 1760 marked the beginning of the end of chattel slavery. The British government was forced to conclude that it was in everyone’s interest if slavery was abolished. The movement to abolished slavery began and out of that came the outlaw of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which progressed on eventually to the abolition of slavery. Chief Takyi was the instigator and leader of the Easter Rebellion of 1760 at Port Maria.
The Easter Rebellion caused the American Revolution, which lead to American independence. The name United States of America and all its liberties, owes its homage, to Chief Takyi and His Easter 1760 rebellion. His attempt to fight for the liberation of the Africans in bandage and cruel slavery was reverberated not only in Jamaica but all across the world.