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The slave trade is said to have drawn between ten and twenty million Africans from their homeland, with approximately six hundred thousand coming to Jamaica (one of the largest importer of slaves at the time) between 1533 and 1807.
Enslaved Jamaicans mounted over a dozen major uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's Revolt in 1760. There were also periodic skirmishes between the British and the mountain communities of the Jamaican Maroons, culminating in the First Maroon War of the 1730s and the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.
Despite those conditions, slave traffic and European immigration increased, and the island’s population grew from a few thousand in the mid-17th century to about 18,000 in the 1680s, with slaves accounting for more than half of the total.
They provide a comprehensive overview of the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica and the West Indies. This covers everything from abolitionist criticism of Goulburn’s plantation to the resistance and organisation of enslaved workers.
First Importation of Africans into Jamaica. First black cargo direct from Africa arrives in the West Indies. First Negro slaves brought to Brazil. Sir John Hawkins sets out on his first slaving voyage. The Dutch West India Company is established and dominates early slave trade to the Americas.
The Baptist War is credited with helping to encourage Parliament to end slavery in the British Empire in 1834. After the Morant Bay rebellion, Jamaica became a crown colony, leading to greater supervision from Parliament. After the First World War, Jamaicans began to agitate for greater self-rule.
By then, almost 2 million slaves were traded to Jamaica, with tens of thousands dying on slave ships in the brutal middle passage between West Africa and the Caribbean. Then, after almost 250 years of rebellion and resistance, emancipation from slavery was finally won in 1838.