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Once Upon an Island

2020 
We hope, in this chapter, to take you on a journey to find the answer to the question that puzzles us and lots of others. How can one explain the disproportionate global influence of Jamaica, a country of 4244 square miles, an annual per capita income of less than US$10,000 and a population of about 3 million people? The journey takes us back through time to the seventeenth century, when sugar cultivation and manufacture arrive in the British possessions in the Caribbean. Sugar cane cultivation needs labour and enslaved Africans are imported to do the work on the sugar plantations. The British sugar plantation slave colony model is developed and spread across the Caribbean to Jamaica and from Jamaica to other locations around the Atlantic World.
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