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The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was an English 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 over the course of British rule. Jamaica was granted independence in 1962.
Colony of Jamaica (1655–1962). Jamaica was part of the West Indies Federation from 1958–62.
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JAMAICAN HISTORY. 1866-1913. Crown Colony Government. Immediately after the rebellion, a great change took place in the Government of the Colony. The House of Assembly agreed to surrender all the rights and privileges it had enjoyed for over two hundred years. It consented that Jamaica should be governed entirely by the British Crown in the future.
Jun 6, 2017 · The acquisition of Jamaica transformed British engagement in the world. When the Cromwellian state dispatched a massive fleet to the West Indies, it reconfigured the relationship between the state and colonial expansion in three respects. First, the Western Design directly involved the state in seizing lands in the extra-European world.
Dec 6, 2017 · Jamaica was considered to be exceptionally rich in the 18th century. Modern historians have tended to perpetuate this idea. This column uses novel methods to shed new light on living standards and inequality in colonial Jamaica. While the country was one of the most expensive places on the planet at the time, this wealth rested in the hands a very small white, slave-owning elite. The rest of ...
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 ...
