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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 ...
William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]
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.
John Gregory (1688 - 1764) was a Jamaican-born colonial administrator, slave-owner, and military official in the eighteenth century British colony of Jamaica who acted as Governor of Jamaica three times, served as Chief Justice of Jamaica twice, and served as the President of the Legislative Council of Jamaica, Chancellor, & Commander-In-Chief of the colony of Jamaica and the territories ...
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 troops left in Jamaica suffered heavily from disease and malnutrition; within a year, only 2,500 remained from the original invasion force of 7,000. Spanish losses were also severe; one of the first victims was de Proenza, who lost his sight, and was succeeded by Cristóbal Arnaldo de Issasi, whose family had been among the original Spanish ...
Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica.Born in Kingston, Jamaica into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject.
History of Jamaica book cover. Long's History of Jamaica, first published in 1774 in three volumes but again in the 1970s, [7] was his well-known work. This book gives a political, social, and economic account with a survey of the island, parish by parish from 1665 to 1774. [8]