Sebastian Coe

[Sir X]

Clarke was born in Jamaica and Seb’s next journey is to the Caribbean. Local birth records reveal that he was illegitimate, the son of George Hyde Clarke and Sophia Astley. Sophia was the daughter of a fashionable painter, John Astley, whose will refers to George as an “exorable villain”. “You can fee the vitriol and bile coming through the legalese there,” says Seb. Another will refers to George’s wife, Catherine Hussey, as “unhappy and much injured”. It’s not a flattering portrait.

Researching George’s life further, Seb discovers that he was a member of the plantocracy, the 18th-century ruling class in Jamaica, who owned sugar plantations where slaves worked the land. Gradually, a picture builds of a fabulously wealthy man whose slave workforce alone was valued at £700,000 in today’s money. And perhaps, considering he sired at least six illegitimate children by different women, a man rich enough to ignore conventional morality. For Sophia, there was at least a respectable ending: she later married in London.

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazi.../sebastian-coe


“I got to know Oliver because my family, some of them lived in Falmouth, and I got to meet Oliver around the time that London was bidding for the Olympic Games and I came to Jamaica and was invited to meet him,” Coe told The Gleaner during a telephone interview yesterday.
AMAZING MAN

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/s...-oliver-clarke

[Sir X]

This always pops up in my head .

Another significant result of the differences in fertility and mortality between Virginia and Jamaica were different patterns in the purchase of slaves from Africa. Between the colonization of Jamaica by the British in 1655 and the British abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807, approximately 1,017,000 African slaves were brought to Jamaica. Virginia,on the other hand, only imported 101,000 during the same period. Despite this huge disparity, both colonies had approximately 380,000 slaves in 1807. This difference is made even more remarkable by the fact that Virginia independently outlawed the slave trade in 1778. Virginian planters simply did not need more slaves. In fact, Virginian slave-owners had so many slaves due to natural increase in the early nineteenth century that they began exporting them.

https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cg...=honors_thesis

Brutal isnt it ? a man says england did alot for us Wha yuh say Brick & H.l , 400 more years ?

[Sir X]

The Jamaican insurrections of 1760–1761, and further uprisings there in 1765 and 1766, were among the largest and most consequential of these.

The aims and tactics employed by the rebels made it clear to observers that many had been soldiers in Africa. As John Thornton has argued, “Africans with military experience played an important role in revolts, if not by providing all of the rebels, at least by providing enough to stiffen and increase the viability of revolts.” Beyond one or two exceptional leaders, whole cadres of people had military training and discipline, or had at least gained knowledge of defensive tactics in Africa. Indeed, many American slave revolts might be seen as extensions of African wars. Casting them as such does more than assert the importance of Africa in the making of the Atlantic world; it helps to reveal how complex networks of migration, belonging, transregional power, and conflict gave the political history of the 18th century some of its distinctive contours. Recognizing slave revolt as a species of warfare is the first step toward a new cartography of Atlantic slavery.

https://time.com/5766781/slave-insur...tlantic-world/


This foolishness that Jamaicans have some special war gene, is dismissed by hidden history. It cleary shows we were enslaved africans from diverse tribes skilled at war who had two options upon arriving in Jamaica. 1) Die working on a plantation or 2) Die revolting against dying on a plantation.

The outcome is schizophrenic offsprings with personality disorders that kick off in any enviroment, to go to war. Exhibited in competitive sports that become natural cultural outlets of this practice.


It is thus a small step for Brown to conclude that “recognizing slave revolt as a species of warfare is the first step toward a new cartography of Atlantic slavery

The Navy brought the full resources of transatlantic empire to bear against the rebels,” Brown writes, “articulating the local conflict to the wider war.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...amaica-slavery