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  2. British Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) - Wikipedia

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    Cudjoe's Town was located in the mountains in the southern extremities of the parish of St James, close to the border of Westmoreland, Jamaica. [1]In 1690, a large number of Akan freedom fighters already living in the mountains launched an assault on the Sutton's Estate in Clarendon, central Jamaica, free between 300 and 400 enslaved people.

  4. List of Jamaican British people - Wikipedia

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    Co-founder of the first black British glossy magazine, Root [19] [20] Val McCalla (died 2002), accountant and media entrepreneur. He was the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community; Pat McGrath (born 1965), founder of Pat McGrath Labs which has an estimated value of $1 billion

  5. British Jamaican - Wikipedia

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  6. Colony of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of Jamaican Americans - Wikipedia

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    Jewel Scott – first Jamaican American judge in Georgia. First Jamaican American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Clayton County Superior Court. First woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County. [77] [78] Alison Smith – lawyer, first black woman president of Florida's Broward County Bar Association [79] [80]

  8. List of Jamaican flags - Wikipedia

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    Civil Ensign of Jamaica: A British Red Ensign defaced with the coat of arms of colonial Jamaica within a white circle 1875–1906: Flag of the governor of Jamaica: A Union Flag defaced with the coat of arms of colonial Jamaica 1906–1957: Flag of the governor of Jamaica: A Union Flag defaced with the coat of arms of colonial Jamaica 1957–1962

  9. Second Maroon War - Wikipedia

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    The Second Maroon War of 1795–1796 was an eight-month conflict between the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town), a Maroon settlement later renamed after Governor Edward Trelawny at the end of First Maroon War, located near Trelawny Parish, Jamaica in the St James Parish, and the British colonials who controlled the island.