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    Jamaica History, British Virgin Island

    By Uzo Marvin

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    From May 5, 1494, when Columbus first set foot on what he described as "the fairest isle that eyes have beheld," to its emergence as an independent state on August 6, 1962, Jamaica passed through three main periods. First, it served for nearly 150 years as a Spanish-held way station for galleons en route to and from the Spanish Main. Second, from the mid-1600s until the abolition of slavery in 1834, it was a sugar-producing, slave-worked plantation society. Thereafter it was a largely agricultural, British colony peopled mainly by black peasants and workers

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    PublisherInformation Source LLC
    Release dateJun 29, 2016
    ISBN9781311186584
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    Uzo Marvin

    Hi readers, welcome to my profile, I am Uzo, a historian and sport writer, read my books on history of different ethnics, tribes and culture of different environment, I will be updating you with history books,

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