Jamaicans of African ancestry, or Afro-Jamaicans, are citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa, specifically West Africa. Up until the early 1690s Jamaica's population was relatively equally mixed between white and black people. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula after having been taken from West Africa by the Spanish and the Portuguese. They were servants, cowboys, herders of cattle, pigs and horses, as well as hunters.

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  • Jamaicans of African ancestry, or Afro-Jamaicans, are citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa, specifically West Africa. Up until the early 1690s Jamaica's population was relatively equally mixed between white and black people. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula after having been taken from West Africa by the Spanish and the Portuguese. They were servants, cowboys, herders of cattle, pigs and horses, as well as hunters. When the English captured Jamaica in 1655, many of them fought with the Spanish who gave them their freedom and then fled to the mountains resisting the British for many years to maintain their freedom, becoming known as Maroons.
  • Jamaicanos de ascendência africana, ou Afro-jamaicanos, são cidadãos da Jamaica cuja ascendência repousa no continente da África, especificamente África Ocidental. Até o início dos anos 1690 a população da Jamaica, foi igualmente mista relativamente entre brancos e negros. Os primeiros africanos a chegar, vieram em 1513 da Península Ibérica após terem sido tomados da África Ocidental pelos espanhóis e os portugueses. Eram criados, vaqueiros, pastores de gado bovino, porcos e cavalos, bem como caçadores. Quando os ingleses capturaram a Jamaica em 1655, muitos deles, que lutaram com os espanhóis receberam a sua liberdade e, em seguida, fugiram para as montanhas resistindo aos britânicos por muitos anos para manter a sua liberdade, tornando-se conhecida como Maroons.
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  • Notable Jamaicans of African ancestry:
    Bob Marley
    Marcus Garvey
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  • Jamaicans of African ancestry
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  • 231,110 + -
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  • Approx. 2.5 million 91.2% of the Jamaican population
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  • Jamaicans of African ancestry, or Afro-Jamaicans, are citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa, specifically West Africa. Up until the early 1690s Jamaica's population was relatively equally mixed between white and black people. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula after having been taken from West Africa by the Spanish and the Portuguese. They were servants, cowboys, herders of cattle, pigs and horses, as well as hunters.
  • Jamaicanos de ascendência africana, ou Afro-jamaicanos, são cidadãos da Jamaica cuja ascendência repousa no continente da África, especificamente África Ocidental. Até o início dos anos 1690 a população da Jamaica, foi igualmente mista relativamente entre brancos e negros. Os primeiros africanos a chegar, vieram em 1513 da Península Ibérica após terem sido tomados da África Ocidental pelos espanhóis e os portugueses.
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  • Jamaicans of African ancestry
  • Jamaicanos de ascendência africana
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