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Jamaica (Xaymaca)
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1400's - Xaymaca (Jamaica)
'Land of springs'
Arawaks & Tainos originally South Americans
1611 Jamaica Census
Taino 74; Spanish 523;
Africans 558 (enslaved) and 107 (free)
1492 - Columbus lost his way on a voyage to India since called the West Indies
1509 - Spain takes power of Jamaica
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1655 – 1660 British fight Spanish for Jamaica
1670 - Britain takes power over Jamaica's wealth
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
1686 - 1733?
Jamaica's first National Heroine
1700s
1670 - Jamaica's Mass Torture
In the Caribbean, Jamaica was known for taking unyielding African men and women who were later shipped to the island of Jamaica, specifically to be broken-spirited or known as 'seasoned', like the British break their horses.
African Holocaust 'Maangamizi' begins
Millions of Africans dispossessed, branded, beaten, raped, sodomized, tortured, brutalized, murdered, dehumanized & shipped. For every 1,000,000 persons shipped, 10,000 survived the Maangamizi (Chattel Slavery) to The Americans & Caribbean. Estimates are hundreds of millions of people for centuries, were forcibly removed out of the African continent to a new world.
Families were denied seeing their children again!
1834 - Emancipation Apprenticeships
Punishments & Rewards
1831 - Sam Sharpe
Christmas Day Rebellion
1838 - ‘Abolition of Slavery’
1865 - Paul Bogle
Morant Bay Rebellion
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1887 - 1940
The Right Honourable
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Jamaica’s first National Hero
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1731 Jamaica Census
Africans 74, 525 (enslaved) 856 (free) & Europeans 7,648
1739 -Treaty Leeward & Windward Maroon
1760 - Takyi ‘Ghanian King’ Easter Rebellion
1795 - Maroon Treaty
1796 -Treaty broken with 500 Africans relocated to Halifax Canada then Sierra Leone West Africa
Flag Symbolism
"Hardships there are yet the land is green and the sun shineth.
Black symbolizes the strength and creativity of the Jamaican people.
Gold for natural wealth and beauty of sunlight.
Green stands for hope and agricultural resources" (1996).
06 August 1962
Jamaica gains independence