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For example, between 1650 and 1830, just over one million Africans were brought to Jamaica, compared to roughly 388,000 who went to North America – a difference that emphasises the relative economic strengths and importance of the two regions at the period (Jamaica’s white population was multiples wealthier than their American counterparts) and their respective strategies towards slave ownership.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/...se-reparations
Said it a million times, this innate cultural characteristic of jamaicans to fight,question, rebel against the odds of injustice can be traced back to the slaughter house of enslavement, where Jamaica had the most rebellions of all the British colonies combined and that included north america when it was a part of the British empire. The choice was to die in enslavement or die fighting out of it.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/...se-reparations
Said it a million times, this innate cultural characteristic of jamaicans to fight,question, rebel against the odds of injustice can be traced back to the slaughter house of enslavement, where Jamaica had the most rebellions of all the British colonies combined and that included north america when it was a part of the British empire. The choice was to die in enslavement or die fighting out of it.
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