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  2. Jamaica, Queens - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Avenue was an ancient trail for tribes from as far away as the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, coming to trade skins and furs for wampum. [15] It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "Beaver Pond" (now filled in; what is now Tuckerton Street north of Liberty Avenue ...

  3. History of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Contents. History of Jamaica. The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [ 1 ]

  4. Nanny of the Maroons - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica in 1717. Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly-enslaved escapee slaves, the majority of them West African in descent, called the Windward Maroons, along with their children and families. [1]

  5. Monarchy of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Norman Manley, 1962 Norman Manley admired British constitutionalism and explained the position taken by the Joint Committee of the Jamaican Parliament in 1962. Manley argued that the institutional set-up of the country should reflect the constitutional history of the colony and Britain itself. This was seen as Manley's strong endorsement of the Westminster system as a whole, and that the Queen ...

  6. List of plantations in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    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. Both industries used the forced labour of enslaved ...

  7. List of Commonwealth visits made by Elizabeth II - Wikipedia

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    The Queen posing with the New Zealand Cabinet during her visit to New Zealand, 1981. The Queen surrounded by children in Queen Street Mall, Brisbane City, 1982. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Closing Ceremony of the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane, 1982. The Queen opening World Expo 88 at Brisbane, 30 April 1988.

  8. History of the Jews in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of the Jews in Jamaica predominantly dates back to migrants from Spain and Portugal. Starting in 1509, many Jews began fleeing from Spain because of the persecution of the Holy Inquisition. [2] When the English captured Jamaica from Spain in 1655, the Jews who were living as conversos began to practice Judaism openly. [3]

  9. Politics of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state, King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister ...