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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]
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 ...
The island country joined the Commonwealth of Nations, an organisation of ex-British territories. [69] Jamaica continues to be a Commonwealth realm, with the British monarch as King of Jamaica and head of state. An extensive period of postwar growth transformed Jamaica into an increasingly industrial society. This pattern was accelerated with ...
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
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [14] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [19] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [8]
Pages in category "British people of Jamaican descent" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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In 2007, a plaque was erected at Witter Park, Sligoville on 23 May, as a Labour Day event - to commemorate Jamaica's first Free Village. Sturge Town was founded in 1838 as a Free Village and still survives. It is a small rural village about 10 miles from Brown's Town, Saint Ann Parish.