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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. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jamaican daily life ...

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    1 Jamaican daily life under British rule. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: Featured picture candidates/Jamaican daily life under British rule. Add languages.

  4. Category:British people of Jamaican descent - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 12 February 2024, at 13:52 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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

  7. Category:Jamaican people of English descent - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Jamaican people of English descent" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

  8. Independence of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.

  9. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica (/ dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [9]