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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]
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British Jamaicans, Jamaican Canadians, Jamaican Australians, Afro-Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, European Jamaicans, Lebanese Jamaicans, Afro Americans, Hakka Americans, West Africans Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.
The coat of arms is a legacy design, with its earliest iteration having been granted for the colony of Jamaica in 1661 under Royal Warrant. The original design was created by William Sancroft, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The present design was adopted after Jamaican independence in 1962, with slight modification.
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