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Notable Jamaicans of Irish descent. Bromley Armstrong, black Canadian civil rights leader. Sir Alexander Bustamante, national hero and first prime minister of Jamaica. Donald J. Harris, Jamaican and American economist. Kamala Harris. John Hearne, novelist, journalist, and teacher. Claude McKay, poet laureate.
Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British West Indies (particularly Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands), British North America and later Australia. Indentures agreed to provide up to seven years of labor in return for passage to ...
Brown died on 18 September 1843 and is buried in the Protestant graveyard of St Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town, Jamaica. [5] [9]In 2018, Kamala Harris' father, economist Donald J. Harris, wrote in Reflections of a Jamaican Father, that his paternal grandmother was Christiana Brown, a descendant of "plantation and slave owner Hamilton Brown."
History of Jamaica. The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [ 1 ]
Madden's wife was Harriet Elmslie (died 1888); they had three sons, among them Thomas More Madden. [1] She was also the youngest of 21 children. Born in Marylebone in 1801 and baptised there into the Church of England, [14] she was the child of John Elmslie (1739–1822), a Scot who owned hundreds of slaves on his plantations in Jamaica, [3] and his wife Jane Wallace (1760 – 1801).
Lady Louisa Catherine Howe (mother) Alma mater. Eton College. Jesus College, Cambridge. Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo KP PC PC (Ire) (18 May 1788, London – 26 January 1845, Tunbridge Wells), was an Anglo-Irish peer and colonial governor, styled Viscount Westport until 1800 and Earl of Altamont from 1800 to 1809.
Samuel Sharpe. Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp (1801 – 23 May 1832), [1] also known as Sam Sharpe, [2] was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica. He was proclaimed a National Hero of Jamaica in 1975 and his image is on the $50 Jamaican banknote.
500+ rebels sold into slavery. Tacky's Revolt (also known as Tacky's Rebellion and Tacky's War) was a slave rebellion in the British colony of Jamaica which lasted from 7 April 1760 to 1761. Spearheaded by self-emancipated Coromantee people, the rebels were led by a Fante royal named Tacky.