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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]
Wealth or economic power in Jamaica is disproportionately held by the White Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans and the Afro-European (or locally called the Brown Man or Browning Class) - i.e. despite being a minority group(s) (less than 25% of the country's population) controls most of the country's wealth.
In 1838, all black people in Jamaica were emancipated, but in post-slavery Jamaica they continued to be excluded from the reins of power. A number of free black Jamaicans campaigned for political, social, educational and economic rights, until they succeeded in securing independence for the island in 1962. [citation needed]
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 ...
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Since 2015, Tamara Smith has been capturing her experience in Jamaica in places she considers "raw and unseen."
In Canada, the Jamaican population is centred in Toronto, [152] with smaller communities in cities such as Hamilton, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa. [153] Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population. [154] [155] A notable though much smaller group of emigrants are Jamaicans in Ethiopia.
Ms Brown is a Black woman and it has been argued that the case is another example of the judicial system being weaponised against a Black person in a country that is statistically more likely to ...