British colonial period in Jamaica

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The British colonial period in Jamaica was the era from the mid-17th century to 1962 during which Jamaica was ruled by Britain, characterized by plantation slavery, sugar-based economy, racial hierarchy, and recurring resistance and uprisings by the enslaved and their descendants.

Aliases (11)

• Abolition of slavery in the British Empire ×2
• Baptist War ×2
• English conquest of Jamaica ×2
• First Maroon War ×2
• Morant Bay Rebellion ×2
• Second Maroon War ×2
• Abolition of the slave trade ×1
• British colonial era in Jamaica ×1
• Jamaican independence ×1
• Kingston ×1
• Spanish Town ×1

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