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Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The English Conquest of Jamaica

The english were able to conquer jamaica pretty easily. Some of the african people actually withdrew into the mountains and formed the original corps of a maroon community, which then would persist through the 16 and 17 hundreds. There is migration from barbadoes, which transplants the sugar complex and alloted the same laws and customs that were known in barbadoes to jamaica. And their multi product so along the coast, especially round kingston, you might have sugar plantations, but then in the interior there's also coffee and tobacco and cattle ranches. So it becomes more of a complex society. Although sugar certainly rises to become the number one big export.

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