The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509. In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English and became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal. Until slavery was abolished by Parliament in 1833, the island sugar plantations were highly dependent on slave labor, based on Africans who initially were captured, kidnapped, and sold into slavery from peoples of West and Central Africa. By the eighteenth century, sugarcane became the most important export of the island.
Many slaves arrived in Jamaica via the Atlantic slave trade during the early seventeenth century, the same period when the first enslaved Africans arrived in North America. By the early nineteenth century, people of African descent greatly outnumbered ethnic Europeans.
After the British Crown abolished slavery in 1834, the Jamaicans began working toward independence which they achieved in 1962.
This is the beach to the right of the dock.
Jimmy Buffet's Margarita bars are common. The Christmas tree are colorful with bright yellow native flowers and blue painted margarita glasses.
Jamaican rum is a big seller here.
You could have spent a week here, with Bob Marley's Museum.
Dunn's River Falls, which you can climb up.
Snorkeling, horse riding on the beach, ATVing and everything else.


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