our common heritage
A way of life of a people.
What is culture?
First colonisers of the Caribbean.
Who were the Spaniards?
Escaped runaway slaves living in the mountains in Jamaica.
Who are the Maroons?
A runaway slave woman who became a leader of the maroons.
Who is Nanny?
the state of being a slave.
What is Slavery?
a community or group of people who share common ancestors and a common culture
What is an ethnic group?
a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain.
A group of people who came from different tribes and enslaved to work on sugar plantations in the Americas.
Who were the Africans?
The ending of slavery in Jamaica.
What is emancipation?
Who is Sam Sharpe?
the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
Who are the Tainos?
A group of people who were enslaved in their hometowns of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal and transported to the Caribbean.
Who are the Africans?
The journey from Africa to the Caribbean region.
What is the Middle Passage?
A rebellion in Montego Bay in 1831 that helped bring about emancipation.
What is the Christmas Day Rebellion.
A generous land owner who worked hard to improve conditions for freed Africans and began the long struggle for voting rights for all.
Who is George William Gordon?
Spaniards, Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese.
Who are the Europeans?
Captured Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655.
Who are the British?
trade between three ports or regions.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Men and women slaves who planted, weeded, and harvested the crops, mainly sugar cane.
Who are field slaves?
A Revolt in 1760 in the parish of St Mary that helped lead to emancipation for the slaves in Jamaica.
What is the Tacky Revolt?
Came to the Caribbean as indentured servants
Who are the Chinese and the East Indians?
a time around the 15th Century when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.
Referred to as the Gold Coast.
What is Ghana?
White men who lived in great houses, had many slaves and ran large plantations.
Who are the plantation owners?
The system that ex-slaves had to work under immediately after they got emancipation.
What is the Apprenticeship system?