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The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities [6]) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]
Jamaican diaspora; Total population ~2,000,000 (~1,300,000 Jamaican-born) [1] ... Many who do not remain in the UK move on to other Commonwealth countries such as Canada.
The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...
Total population; 21,584: ... Indian labourers, who had proved their worth in similar conditions in Mauritius, were sought by the British Jamaican government, ...
Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom (2 C, 220 P) A. Anguillan people of Jamaican descent (1 P) B. ... Pages in category "British people of Jamaican descent"
There was a flow of French refugees to Jamaica after the Haitian Revolution, though not all remained in the country. In the 1830s, over 1,000 Germans immigrated to Jamaica to work on Lord Seaford's estate. The 1844 census showed a white population of 15,776 out of a total population of 377,433 (around 4%). [11]
The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom.In the period January to December 2016, there were groups from 23 foreign countries that were estimated to consist of at least 100,000 individuals residing in the UK (people born in Poland, India, Pakistan, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Bangladesh ...
British Indo-Caribbean people are British citizens, whose recent ancestors came from the Caribbean, and who further trace their ancestry back to India and the wider subcontinent. The UK has a large population of Indo-Caribbean people.