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The Road To Freedom. ... Britain abolished the slave trade on January 1, 1808. ... 1838 in Jamaica. The island's population in the mid-1830s was said to be ...
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In 1960 the Bank of Jamaica Act came into effect, giving the...
- Famous Jamaican Scientists
DENGUE FEVER In the late 1960s Jamaicans began to suffer...
- The History of Jamaica
THE YEAR 1938 was a turning point in the history of modern...
- The Arrival of The Indians
It was the Indians who first managed to grow rice in...
- Printing in Jamaica
Printing began in 1718 with the publication of the Weekly...
- In This Place Dwelt Horatio Nelson
Nelson took his position seriously and was worried that the...
- The Arrival of The Chinese
Upon arrival, they were claimed by the plantation owners who...
- Dreamers Among Us
A NEW BREED OF FISH In that same year, Mr. Thomas was...
- The Arrival of The Africans
By 1700 Jamaica was awash with sugar plantations and...
- Colourful Characters Jamaica's Birds
These include The Birds of Jamaica (1847), Illustrations of...
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Jamaica portal. v. t. e. 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 inhabitance occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [1]
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Aug 1, 2023 · At midnight on August 1, 1834 Governor Sir Lionel Smith read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps of the portico of the governor’s mansion in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The Atlantic Trade in Africans was officially abolished in 1808. But, from then until 1823, the antislavery campaign train seemed to have run out of steam.
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Nov 6, 2007 · Slave trade between Africa and Jamaica was finally abolished in 1807 and no additional slaves were to be brought to the island after March 1, 1808. Historically, much of Jamaica's success was...
One of the most notable events was the abolition of slavery in 1834. This marked a major turning point in the country’s history and led to significant social and economic changes.
ESTABLISHING A FREE SOCIETY IN JAMAICA, 1838-1865 Graham Knox * Slavery was abolished in the British West Indies in 1834 with the tacit assumption by the Colonial Office that the Negro would continue to work on the plantation as a laborer, that the missionary would continue to act as the
