When we were in Jamaica, we were on excursion with a Guide and learned something new about Christopher Columbus and slavery and sugar plantations.
The first inhabitants of
Jamaica, were the Arawak Indians. The Arawak Indians communities was based on
fishing, small scale and hunting. The arrival of Christopher Columbus in
1494 changed the Island´s ways of living with plundering, migration and their
traditional economic.
So Jamaica’s history began
with Christopher Columbus, when the Spanish had hoped to find gold on the
Island of Jamaica but didn’t find none. He arrived in Jamaica in 1492. The
Arawak Indian was exterminating by the Spaniards by enslaving them and new
diseases that our unleashed by the Spaniards. Jamaica was under Spanish rule
until 1655 before the British possession.
The British empire
imported a big percent of African slaves to be used as slaves on the sugar plantations.
For the African slaves the plantations were like their prisons, some of the
slaves ran away from sugar plantations, to live in small bands in the
mountains.
The trip was so
educational we learned a lot. When we came back to the hotel we went strait too
bad because we were all so tired.
by Moshair
by Moshair
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