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English: Islands in the West Indies in 1796: "The map is colour coded to show which European country controlled which colonies. The British colonies have pink around their borders, the French blue and the Spanish yellow."
Map of Jamaica: Benedetto Bordone: A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. 2: 1562: Isola Cuba Nova: Girolamo Ruscelli: Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. [2] 4: 1572: Jamaica: Tomaso Porcacchi
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
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Jamaica has also formed a summer school program, which is a five-day workshop for students to gain first hand experience working in the tourism environment. Field trips to "local" tourist attractions are also included, along with a "one month placement of the top students in hotels and tourism related organizations.
On 10 July 1835, Reverend James Phillippo, an English Baptist minister and anti-slavery activist stationed in Spanish Town, purchased 25 acres (10 ha) of land for £100 and established the first "free village" in the West Indies. [1] The land was subsequently divided into quarter-acre lots which the freed slaves could purchase for £3 each. [2]
The British West Indies Study Circle exists to promote interest in and the study of the stamps and postal history of the islands that comprise the British West Indies and in addition Bermuda, British Guiana (Guyana) and British Honduras (Belize) and the postal history and postal markings of other British interests in the Caribbean, and Central or South America.
The Caribbean campaign of 1803–1810 was a series of military contests mainly in the West Indies spanning the Napoleonic Wars involving European powers Napoleonic France, the Batavian Republic, Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Eventually British naval forces dominated the seas and by 1810 ...