Those who survived were fattened up and oiled to look healthy prior to being auctioned in public squares to the highest bidders.īased on slave ship records, enslaved Africans mostly came from the Akan people (Akwamu, Ashanti, Akyem Fante and Bono) followed by Igbo people, Ibibio people, Kongo people, the Yoruba and the Fon people. They were placed in trading posts or forts to await the six- to twelve-week Middle Passage voyage between Africa and the Americas during which they were chained together, underfed, and kept in the ship's hold by the thousands. The most common means of enslaving an African was through abduction. West Africans were captured and enslaved in wars with other West African states, as retribution for crimes committed within a state or by abduction by either African or European slavers, and marched to the coast in "coffles" with their necks yoked to each other. During the period of British rule, slaves brought into Jamaica were primarily Akan, some of whom ran away and joined with Maroons and even took over as leaders. When the English invaded Jamaica in 1655, many of them fought with their Spanish masters, who gave them their freedom, and then fled to the mountains, resisting the English colonial administration for decades, becoming known as Maroons. The first Africans to arrive in Jamaica came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula. The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century, when enslaved Africans were transported as slaves to Jamaica and other parts of the Americas. Most Jamaicans of mixed-race descent self-report as just Jamaican. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rastafari, Convince, Jamaican Maroon religion, KuminaĪfrican Caribbean, Black British, Black Canadians, West/Central AfricansĪfro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominant Sub-Saharan African descent. Mainly Christianity, with minorities of Irreligion, Rastafarism, Judaism Racial or ethnic group in Jamaica Afro-Jamaicans Total populationĩ1.4% (76.3% black and 15.1% Afro-European)
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