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  2. History of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Independence of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. In Jamaica, this date is celebrated as Independence Day, a national holiday. The island became an imperial colony in 1509 when Spain attempted to erase the Indigenous Taino people from not only the face of the earth, but history itself.

  4. Colony of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Culture of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Culture of Jamaica. Jamaican culture consists of the religion, norms, values, and lifestyle that define the people of Jamaica. The culture is mixed, with an ethnically diverse society, stemming from a history of inhabitants beginning with the original inhabitants of Jamaica (the Taínos). The Spaniards originally brought slavery to Jamaica.

  6. Pre-Columbian Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica portal. v. t. e. Around 650 AD, Jamaica was settled by the people of the Ostionoid culture (ancestors of the Taíno), who likely came from South America. [1] Alligator Pond in Manchester Parish and Little River in St. Ann Parish are among the earliest known sites of this Ostionoid culture, also known as the Redware culture. [1]

  7. History of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish–American War (1898) ended Spanish control of Cuba (gained independence in 1902 independent but remained under heavy U.S. influence until 1959 through the Platt Amendment and Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1903)) and Puerto Rico (which became a U.S. protectorate with Puerto Ricans becoming U.S. citizens in 1917, and Puerto ...

  8. Spanish West Indies - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish West Indies, Spanish Caribbean or the Spanish Antilles (also known as "Las Antillas Occidentales " or simply "Las Antillas Españolas " in Spanish) were Spanish territories in the Caribbean. In terms of governance of the Spanish Empire, The Indies was the designation for all its overseas territories and was overseen by the Council ...

  9. History of the Turks and Caicos Islands - Wikipedia

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    The islands remained a dependency of Jamaica until 1959, when they received their own administration under an administrator, although the governor of Jamaica remained the governor of the islands. When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks and Caicos Islands became a crown colony. From 1965 the governor of The ...