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The White population would dramatically decrease during the 1800s, making up only 4% of the population at a peak. [8] According to the 2011 Census of Population and Housing for Jamaica, 0.2% of Jamaica's population is considered White. Over half of the White population lives in the Saint Andrew Parish. [9]
The 1993 novel Voyager by Diana Gabaldon uses Rose Hall as a setting while the main characters are in Jamaica. American rock band Coven included the song "The White Witch of Rose Hall" on their first album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969). The 19th-season finale of America's Next Top Model staged its final runway show at Rose Hall.
Honor Maria Ford-Smith (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet.The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father, Ford-Smith is sometimes described as "Jamaica white," signalling a person of mixed race who appears white.
Amelia Lewsham or Amelia Harlequin or Amelia Newsham (c. 1748 – after 1797) was a Jamaican woman born with albinism, enslaved and exhibited as the "White Negress" in London, and subjected to medical and naturalists examination. She freed herself and became eventually a businesswoman successfully making exhibitions by her own.
Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War; Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor; Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian; Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma
Edith Clarke was born in Westmoreland Parish, a member of the Jamaican white elite. She was the daughter of Hugh Clarke, a planter and the custos of Westmoreland parish. [2] An account cited that she was influenced by her grandfather, Henry Clarke, who is noted for his campaign against poverty and social justice in Jamaica. [2]
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]
Cain was not the first woman licensed in Jamaica, in 1952 an American, Earsley Barnett, received the first pilot licence granted to a woman in Jamaica; Cain was the first Jamaican born woman to receive a licence. Cain worked as a charter pilot for Jamaica Air Taxi (JAT) - having started the job before March 1976. [3]