Brief History Of Jamaica

 Two of the three groups of early settlers of Jamaica-Arawak and Spanish-left no mark on the ethnology of the island. Both are remembered only by a few words that have been absorbed into the language by place names and by artifacts. The descendants of the third of these groups, however, have survived and have contributed to the tapestry of Jamaican history and culture. These, of course, are the black Africans who arrived with the Spanish and survived the English conquest.

By the early nineteenth century, Jamaicans were divided into three separate legal castes: free whites, colored people with limited privileges, and negro slaves. Two groups of whites not of British extraction also settled on the island in the early days. The most important of these were the Jews, mainly Sephardim, who came as early as the seventeenth century. The other were French Catholic Creoles from St Dominique (Haiti), who came as refugees from the slave uprising at the end of the eighteenth century. Jews in Jamaica were given full civil and political liberty in 1830, long before Great Britain showed similar religious tolerance.

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