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  2. Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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    According to the official Jamaica Population Census of 1970, ethnic origins categories in Jamaica include: Black; Chinese; East Indian; White; and 'Other' (e.g.: Syrian or Lebanese). [1] Jamaicans who consider themselves Black (according to the United States' One-drop rule definition of Black), made up 92% of the working population. Those of ...

  3. Afro-Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominantly African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. [2]The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century, when enslaved Africans were transported as slaves to Jamaica and other parts of the Americas. [3]

  4. Free black people in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Edna Manley was also the wife of Norman Manley, the founder of the Jamaican People's National Party and the first Premier of Jamaica. She is often considered the "mother of Jamaican art". [100] Noel Tancred Escofil (8 November 1913- 31 Mar 1989) was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and later immigrated to the United States.

  5. Jamaican Americans - Wikipedia

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    Jamaicans have been involved in American political issues since the 1800s. John B. Russwurm fought against slavery and co-founded America's first black press, Freedom's Journal, in 1827. [22] Ferdinand Smith co-founded the National Maritime Union and was considered one of the most powerful black labor leaders in U.S. history.

  6. Afro-Caribbean people - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...

  7. Demographics of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica's annual population growth rate stood at 0.08% in 2022. As of 2023, 68.9% of Jamaicans were Christians in 2011, predominantly Protestant . A more precise study conducted by the local University of the West Indies - Jamaica's population is more accurately 76.3% African descent or Black, 15.1% Afro-European, 3.4% East Indian and Afro-East ...

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  9. Afro–Latin Americans - Wikipedia

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    Some Miskito consider themselves to be purely indigenous, denying this Black African heritage. [92] They do not, however, identify as such but rather as mestizo. [93] The Black Creoles of the Bay Islands are today distinguished as an ethnic group for their racial difference from the mestizos and blacks, and their cultural difference as English ...