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History of Jamaica:
Originally inhabited by the Tainos, the Spanish were the first Europeans to settle in Jamaica. Until they were supplanted by the English in 1655. By the start of the eighteenth century, sugar cultivation had became [sic] Jamaica's primary industry and export, resulting in the importation of many thousands of Africans to work in the sugar plantations. Jamaica's slaves won emancipation in 1834, although people were not fully free until the end of the apprenticeship period in 1838. A colony of Britain until 1962, Jamaica has since operated as an independent nation, its government centered in Kingston on the south coast. |