The Complete History of Jamaica 🇯🇲

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The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. 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. Early inhabitants of Jamaica named the land "Xaymaca", meaning "land of wood and water". The Spanish enslaved the Arawak, who were ravaged further by diseases that the Spanish brought with them. Early historians believe that by 1602, the Arawak-speaking Taino tribes were extinct. However, some of the Taino escaped into the forested mountains of the interior, where they mixed with runaway African slaves, and survived free from first Spanish, and then English, rule. The Spanish also transported hundreds of West African people to the island. However, the majority of Africans were brought into Jamaica by the English. In 1655, the English invaded Jamaica, and defeated the Spanish. Some African slaves took advantage of the political turmoil and escaped to the island's interior mountains, forming independent communities which became known as the Maroons. Meanwhile, on the coast, the English built the settlement of Port Royal, a base of operations where piracy flourished as so many European rebels had been rejected from their countries to serve sentences on the seas. Captain Henry Morgan, a Welsh plantation owner and privateer, raided settlements and shipping bases in Port Royal, earning him his reputation as one of the richest pirates in the Caribbean. In the 18th century, sugar cane replaced piracy as British Jamaica's main source of income. The sugar industry was labour-intensive and the British brought hundreds of thousands of enslaved black Africans to the island. By 1850, the black & mulatto Jamaican population outnumbered the white population by a ratio of twenty to one. Enslaved Jamaicans mounted over a dozen major uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's Revolt in 1760. There were also periodic skirmishes between the British and the mountain communities of the Jamaican Maroons, culminating in the First Maroon War of the 1730s and the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.

0:00:00 - intro
0:00:12 - Summary
0:01:15 - Pre-Columbian Jamaica
0:02:10 - The Spanish colonial period (1494–1655)
0:04:08 - English conquest
0:04:55 - British Colonization
0:05:29 - Maroons
0:06:26 - The House of Assembly
0:07:14 - Jamaica's pirates
0:09:04 - Jamaica's sugar boom
0:09:50 - First Maroon War
0:11:48 - Tacky's revolt
0:12:53 - Second Maroon War
0:13:42 - Slave resistance
0:14:33 - The Baptist War
0:15:47 - Emancipation
0:17:07 - The Morant Bay Rebellion
0:18:54 - Decline of the sugar industry
0:21:34 - Jamaica as a Crown Colony
0:22:37 - Religion
0:23:31 - Kingston, the new capital
0:24:33 - Marcus Garvey
0:24:59 - Rastafari movement
0:25:43 - The Great Depression and worker protests
0:26:19 - New unions and parties
0:29:42 - The road to independence
0:32:10 - Jamaica under Bustamante
0:32:59 - Reggae
0:33:42 - Bob Marley
0:34:15 - Michael Manley
0:35:59 - One Love Peace Concert
0:36:14 - Edward Seaga
0:37:19 - Hurricane Gilbert
0:38:22 - Birth of Jamaica's film industry
0:38:52 - 18 years of PNP rule
0:42:52 - Economic challenges
0:43:57 - 2007 Cricket World Cup and 2008 Olympics
0:45:31 - Dancehall goes global
0:46:39 - Tivoli Incursion
0:47:58 - 2011 election
0:49:16 - Further economic troubles
0:49:54 - 2016 election
0:50:09 - 2020 election
0:50:24 - outro

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