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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Afro-JamaicansAfro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominantly or partial Sub-Saharan African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. Most Jamaicans of mixed-ethnicity descent self-report as just Jamaican. The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave
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See moreAfricans were captured in wars, as retribution for crimes committed or by abduction and marched to the coast in "coffles" with their necks yoked to each other. The most common means of enslaving an African was
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See moreJamaican enslaved peoples came from West/Central Africa and South-East Africa. Many of their customs survived based on memory and myths. They encompassed the life cycle, i.e. a
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Mainly Christianity with minorities of Irreligion, Rastafarism, Judaism or Islam. Related ethnic groups. Afro-Caribbean, West/Central Africans, African Americans, Black British, Black Canadians. Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominantly or majority Sub-Saharan African descent. They presently represent the largest ethnic group in the country.
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Pages in category "Afro-Jamaican". The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). Afro-Jamaicans.
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Lynden Pindling – Bahamian politician, and first Prime minister of the Bahamas. Samuel Jackman Prescod – Barbados, first elected Afro-Caribbean politician in the House of Assembly. Sam Sharpe – Jamaica, freedom fighter. Solitude – Guadeloupe, freedom fighter. Eric Eustace Williams – Trinidad and Tobago politician, writer and head of ...
- Dominican Republic: 2.0 million
- Jamaica: 2.2 million
- Haiti: 8.9 million
- United States: 2.88 million
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Afro-Jamaicans or Black-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of partial or predominately Black African descent. They presently represent the largest ethnic group in the country, comprising over 90 percent of the island's population. In addition, there are people of Afro-Jamaican descent living in other parts of the world, such as the United States and United Kingdom.
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Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora. The vast majority of Jamaicans are of African descent, with minorities of Europeans, East Indians, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and others of mixed ancestry. The bulk of the Jamaican diaspora resides in other Anglophone countries, namely Canada, the United States ...
