We came
We brought mangoes, tea, coffee and baked goods to the Caribbean.
The Europeans
Sailed to west to discover new trade routes to India and China.
Christopher Columbus
1833 Marks what significant event in slave history?
The Emancipation Bill passed in Britain
Ruled Jamaica during 1865?
Governor Eyre
The Abeng
We brought the first Africans to the Caribbean
The Spaniards
Lead a resistance against the British in 1760.
Tacky
On May 23, 1832 this tragic event occurred.
Sam Sharpe was hung.
A mulatto man who was apart of the legislative council at the time of the Morant Bay rebellion.
George William Gordon
The people who came before us.
Ancestors
Large groups of us were brought to the Caribbean in the 17th century.
The Africans
George William Gordon
What was returned to the people of Jamaica in 1997?
Emancipation Day Celebration
Created strategies to attack the British Army
Nanny of the Maroons
Maroon Village in the west of Jamaica
Accompong
We decided to come to the Caribbean because we wanted to share in the wealth the Spanish had acquired.
The Dutch
The preacher who was named after his plantation master and was said to have headed a major uprising.
Samuel Sharpe
The Tainos
Featured on the Jamaican $2.00 note.
Paul Bogle
Molasses
We entered the Caribbean around 250 BC
Leeward Maroon leader who signed a peace treaty with the English in 1739.
Cudjoe
In 1838 this document was read in Spanish town Jamaica
Emancipation Declaration
Read the declaration from old Kingston house in August 1838.
Governor Sir Lionel Smith.
Name given to the system that brought Africans to the Americas
Transatlantic Slave Trade.