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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]
Jamaican poet James Berry was one of the first Caribbean writers to come to Britain after the 1948 British Nationality Act. He was followed by writers including Barbadians George Lamming and Edward Kamau Brathwaite , Trinidadians Samuel Selvon and C. L. R. James , Jamaican Andrew Salkey and the Guyanese writer Wilson Harris .
t. e. The British Nationality Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British nationality by creating the status of "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies" (CUKC) as the sole national citizenship of the United Kingdom and all of its colonies.
Advert in the Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, 15th April, 1948 Several weeks before the ship left the United Kingdom, opportunistic advertisements had been placed in a Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner , offering cheap passage on the ship's return voyage; advertisements were also placed in newspapers in British Honduras , British ...
Windrush scandal. The Windrush scandal was a British political scandal that began in 2018 concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases [1][2][3] wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. Many of those affected had been born British subjects and had arrived in the ...
The island country joined the Commonwealth of Nations, an organisation of ex-British territories. [70] 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 ...
August 6, 2022 at 12:23 PM. The Prince of Wales has said the contribution of Jamaicans to the United Kingdom has been “immeasurable” as he marked the country’s Diamond Jubilee. Charles said ...
Contents. Colony of Jamaica. 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 ...