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This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
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.
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Lloyd's List reported on 1 May 1804 that Chiswick, Pondler, master, had been captured in the West Indies as she was sailing from London to Jamaica. Her captors had sent her into Saint Martin. [5] On 11 or 12 August, however, Chiswick, Williams, master, returned to Gravesend from Saint Kitts. [6] How she returned to British hands is unclear.
Jamaica accepted the convention on January 18, 1980, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. Jamaica has a single World Heritage Site, Blue and John Crow Mountains, which was inscribed in 2015. Country also has two sites on the tentative list. [3]
The Beckford family was an aristocratic English family in Jamaica. [1] They were known for their involvement in the slave trade and owning plantations in the West Indies in the 17th century . [ 2 ]
Tivoli Gardens was developed in West Kingston, Jamaica, between 1963 [3] and 1965 [4] by demolishing and redeveloping the area of the Rastafarian settlement Back-O-Wall. [5] The area was notorious in the 1950s as the worst slum in the Caribbean, where "three communal standpipes and two public bathrooms served a population of well over 5,000 people."
Frontier Estate was a sugar plantation located in Port Maria, Jamaica. [1] The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832. [ 2 ] Following emancipation in 1834, the formerly enslaved Africans were obliged to remain on the plantations as "apprentices", whereby they worked as before for three-quarters of their ...