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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]
After World War 2, Great Britain experienced a massive labor shortage. To solve this problem they invited people from the West Indies, mostly Jamaicans, to migrate to Britain. This lasted from 1948 to 1971. These people are known as the Windrush Generation, named after the first ship that carried passengers from Jamaica to the UK, Empire ...
An estimated 554,897 Jamaican-born people lived in the U.S. in 2000. [6] ... There have also been many Jamaican-American NBA players including Patrick Ewing, Ben ...
According to the official Jamaica Population Census of 1970, ethnic origins categories in Jamaica include: Black; Chinese; East Indian; White; and 'Other' (e.g.: Syrian or Lebanese). [1] Jamaicans who consider themselves Black (according to the United States' One-drop rule definition of Black), made up 92% of the working population. Those of ...
Michael Page (born 1987), professional boxer and mixed martial artist; mother was from Jamaica; Jimmy Peters (born 1879), first black man to play rugby union for England; Nathan Redmond (born 1994), footballer; Jason Robinson (born 1974), rugby international, first black captain of the England national rugby union team.
Italian explorer Christopher Columbus was the first European to visit Jamaica. He claimed the island for Spain on May 3, 1494, during his second voyage to the New World. The proportion of white people among the overall population in Jamaica has varied considerably since the establishment of a permanent Spanish settlement in 1509 by Juan de ...
British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. [5] They are British citizens whose recent ancestors originate from the Caribbean, and further trace much of their ancestry to West and Central Africa or they are nationals of the Caribbean who reside in the UK. There are some self ...
Turks and Caicos Islands people of Jamaican descent (1 C, 1 P) W. Welsh people of Jamaican descent (32 P) Pages in category "British people of Jamaican descent"