German Town Jamaica, Documentary
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German Town: The Lost Story Of Seaford Town Jamaica.
A documentary on a German founded village in the mountains of Westmoreland Jamaica.
Interviews with the descendants of the original German migrants who remain in the village and a display of the German remnants of culture and heritage living on in the village to this day.
Copyright 2012/2022 D. Ritter.
Directed and produced by David Ritter. All rights reserved.
I've been German Town several times as I have family in Westmoreland. They're Jamaicans just like the rest of us, and I love the diversity of my island.
I used to go there with my Grandma when i was a kid i am 56 now i think i spent a summer with them. The older folks knew about them a lot of them went abroad early though.
they're not Jamaicans, they are Germans. As you can see they clearly don't want to mix with the black people. Stop loving white supremacy.
Did u not hear how racist the old lady is?
yup @17:10 @@Imforeverlemarz
Faciñating
they don't have to be afraid to share their history and speak of their people because in jamaica we welcome everyone we dont see color we see character. i'm from Manchester Jamaica and have also lived in St Elizabeth and we have plenty white folks living in these areas and we all lived as one we never look at anyone color i'm so grateful for this documentry. my great great grandma is white. lets continue to live in one love as we always have dont let outside influence change us we love our Jamaican people no matter their ethnicity. One Love One Heart.
This is Jamaica. Completely different in The West. Black People have always Welcome other Races, But Our Own. This is why they were able to give us the Bible, told Us to Pray, then divide and Conquered until this Day.
Amen word's of truth same way so.
Ur stupid. That's why bm own nothing. They welcome ppl to steal from them.
Really? But black Jamaicans want to be white if that was true what you said. You don't see color but most jamaicans do thats why dem bleach out.
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Manners and Respekt Codie 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾, Love your poem. Am a Jamaicain 🇯🇲 living here in Germany 🇩🇪, am a mother of two children plus my stepson and a grandmother of 7 beautiful adorable blessings grandchildren and they all Born here in Germany 🇩🇪, this country welcome me and and my family so much, the opportunities that was given to us here am so so thankful and grateful for it, this Documentary was very inspiring and interesting . I just wish we could all just live as one ☝🏾. Learn to start by loving Respecting and understanding each others more. Just come together and live as one . Love and Blessings all 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Iam half German and half Jamaican,and watching this made me feel very connected to these People
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My father was born in Seaford Town. The very sad thing is that we were never taught about this very important part of our / Jamaica's history in school. It should be included in the curriculum.
last name hacker by any chance?
@@PurpleWizrd2712 LOL
Perhaps in research generally for all the races that came to Jamaica in University but a touch on those in primary education. ❤
As a Jamaican i learnt a lot from this documentary.
Never learn this in history class.
My grandmother was German. She gave me the most beautiful person I’ve met this lifetime….my dad. He’s the best human being I’ve been blessed to know. RIP dad. Your legacy lives on.
Just beautiful Sis❤
I just stumbled over this video. I'm now 60 years old. Left Germany in 2005 because I couldn't find work in my area anymore. Moved to Canada. In 2019, I booked a flight to Panama to escape the Canadian winter months. Pandemic stranded me in Panama. After 2 years trying to get back to Canada, I thought: "Actually why? I can stay here too." Since 2019, I am here. Traveled as a young guy a lot. But in this video, it came up what I did hear everywhere I had a talk with people. "You Germans are very hard workers!" In Canada I worked 70-100 hours a week. After 5 years I got me a house. No vacation. Always work. 2 years ago, I bought a lot in Panama from the little money I had left. Started this year to build my house. All by myself. My neighbors think that I am crazy. "Why are you working so hard? Enjoy life." I thought about it for a couple of seconds and said: "I enjoy life. I am happy when I can work very hard on my house." I have no help. So everything is done by myself. So it must be true. We Germans are hard workers. 😊 I have a girlfriend here in Panama. When she comes to the lot and we passing the farmers on the way, she has a small talk with them. "Your "husband" is working very hard on the house." - So my girlfriend is always saying: Wow. They really respect you. Well. I'm German. I can't deny it. 😂
Well, I for one admire Germans and Germany. I like your emphasis on great engineering. I like your cars. I have a 1964 VW Beetle, which is iconic.
@@rbyfield I wished I had one Beetle. I’m a certified VW/Audi car mechanic (Yes. It was in the old good days that VW & Audi was sold and serviced under one roof). I’m driving now a 2003 Mercedes E240 with lots of electrical issues. A Beetle wouldn’t had this issues at all.
I was born and raised in Kingston Jamaica in 1961 migrate to USA in 1993 and I was never taught of German history or that Germans are living in Seaford in Jamaica so surprised when I came up on documentary,thanks for info,like the motto says out of many we are one
My father grew up on Berkshire, not too far from Westmoreland. I never knew about the German town until I went to visit my family in Berkshire. We stopped off at a little shop in Seaford, where a woman and her daughter worked. It turns out they knew my father and he had been going to that shop since he was little.
I am a Jamaican, born and raised of German, British, African heritage. My German ancestors lived in Manchester. Migrating to the USAand serving in the military, we are now actually living in Germany and I am learning so much about that part of my ancestry living here. This is so heart breaking to hear and see something that I never ever thought existed in Jamaica. Classism yes, racism no. If yuh born ah Jamaica, yuh ah Jamaican, regardless wey yuh ancestors come from. Out of many (race, color, creed), we ARE one. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇩🇪🇩🇪 and proud🇯🇲🇯🇲
Am amazed..i am Jamaican i was born in Kingston..i have been living in St.Thomas for years now,thats Yallah,St.Thomas Jamaica West Indies..i would love to visit this place Seaford Town Westmoreland..to meet these wonderful people of German ancestry..am a black woman am feeling so proud in listening to this documentary..this looks like a peaceful place mixed with Germans an Jamaicans..am at a loss for words..i have heard about Germans in St.Elizabeth but not Westmoreland
This looks like a crime free place..am happy
Same here Sis, I was just about to forward this link to my Sisters. My ancestors are from Europs, and I never once think that way or even talk about my race. I was shock when I heard the woman telling the reporter not to mix with the black race.😔
Classism is worst than racism. Look at India as an example.
Ooooooook I remember when I started to see reggae dances in Germany and the following being huge, I'm from the UK couldn't work it out makes perfect sense now!
bro noway !! that bradley eldemire kid was my classmate back at meadowbrook high in 2010-15. i never questioned his heritage but seeing this makes me super happy i was close friends with a german.
The school curriculum needs to include this history. Beautiful poem the young man read.
Really!
This is so amazing, I was born in Jamacia and never knew of this part of history. This town should be on the tourist map like the Maroon towns, showing the various culture of Jamaica. This is what makes Jamacia unique, I pray this small town stay strong. I like the lady fiesty reply to the taxi man, had i been in her situation i would have responded the same. I can see they are proud to be Jamacians. Thank you for the education.
thank you Claudine- David
Lots of people go there as tourists, maybe you didn't work in tourism, that's why you weren't aware of it
@@shawniepirie8719 After filming in this village for a month and a half I did not see one tourist enter Seaford Town. Many Jamaicans know little to nothing of this village. this response is common.
If you were from Westmoreland, there is a high likelihood that you would have heard about this story. Walking around Sav-la-mar, it would not have been uncommon to see some white Jamaicans.
Claudine Allen which lady are you talking about. The old lady who said don't ever mix with black people, and keep white people pure white.
If that is the white lady you are talking about. You do realize that she is white woman from Germany living in a black people country. She clearly doesn't want to be there and doesn't want to be a Jamaican. She wants nothing to do with black people.
That old lady is a strong supporter of gentrification.
But there is also the possibility that we are not talking about the same white lady. So this comment doesn't necessarily apply to you.
A segment of caribbean history jamaica is always being made out of many 1 ppl a refreshing historical recap . Thanks and respect.
So many people are ignorant about history. Not necessarily their fault. It’s good to read, study and learn
This is where am from, it's so good to see some familiar faces that are still alive.
That one farmer looked like Paul Newman. Wow, the German European features are strong in Seaford Town. I believe my grandmother was descended from these Germans. She had grey eyes and very light skin. She was from Trelawny which was listed as one of the towns settled by the German migrants. Jamaica is rich in history. Let's just all get along.
Absolutely fascinating! Who knew!
You ppl are racist loving on our island and no Christopher Columbus found Jamaica
Yes
Diana Braley, are you sure you don't mean Charlton Heston?
My great great grandmother is from Westmoreland look much like these ppl ..possibility it's my descendant too
thank you for putting this together. I learned alot
JM
My great grandmother was born in Seaford Town in 1900. She lived with us until I was 12 yrs old until she became very ill and had to be cared for in a nursing home. I got chills watching and seeing a tombstone with the last name Brown. That was her maiden name. Thank you for this documentary. I learned many things from her as a child, but it has been so long since I have heard things about her village.
Were her children your grandparents brought up in Seaford or your parents and you also?
My grandmother was Brown too
Wow,that's good to know, all my family on my dad's side are from Seaford old town German Town a big family and there Surname is Brown Hazel and Eddie Brown are my Granparents, so good to know my Family Heritage
@Charmaine Eaton my grandmother on my dad's side was Marie (Brown) Buckeridge on my dad's father was Joseph Buckeridge. My grandmother's mother was Ada Maud Brown. The name Hazel sounds very familiar to me. I am going to ask my parents about it . May I ask Charmaine how old are you?
@@anderslarson6813 Hi, thanks for your message I just turned 51yrs on 16 of January, my nan and Grandad had a lot of Children I think 10 children first names was keneth, Freddie, Rosey, Silbert, Linda, Mage, Steven,Bobby, Beverly. My Nan and Grandad moved to London UK and my mum met my Dad Silbert in London and I was the first Granchild born in 1072 in London all my Aunts and Uncles have children Big Family.i just wandered how common the surname Brown was in Seaford old town
That young man with the hat will go far, he has a great heart.
im a jew who recently learned about the jamaican jewish population which made me fascinated. so i started learning about all the different cultures in jamaica. what an interesting history i would love to visit the country one day.
Randomly, have you studied the historic synagogue in Barbados?
@@NiKiMa023 no i have not heard about it, i will definitely look it up :)
My family is from Germantown. My grandmother was half German Jew (her mom ) and AfroCuban (her dad) and my Aunt tells me the stories of how we came to be. She said “My mom would always talk about Germantown.” She at the time was like “yeah yeah German town🙄” but now with the history she knows about it and how we are a direct link she sees it very different. We do not look German anymore lol (we all have a permanent tan lol). She told me that the reason we came to be was because there were no men and the women started to uproar and complain and they finally “let them intermarry “. I find that part interesting. My Grandma would always say I reminded her of her Grandmother because she had long brown hair to her waist, I was one of the black girls with really long hair and never realized why until I got old enough to understand the mix. It’s funny how genes are.
@@ReginaMcNeishwow thats so interesting!! so interesting how jews really spread all over the world. i am told something somewhat similar my great grandmother was in romania and her parents made her leave bc she was dating a boy from a church lolll. I am fascinated to know what it was like for them to move to jamaica tho :)
I just had this convo with a YM who said he is 4th generation US born, I asked if he knew that most of the Jews in JA/Caribbean came from Chile/Spain/Portugal during & worked as "money men" for slavers, he had no idea, blew his mind when I told him Sean Paul had Jewish Ancestry!🧠👀📚
I love this history. I had some German friends over in Seaford Town back in the 19s. They were good friends and I wish i could meet them again.
Try to give out the names of the people you knew back then, just give out some last names
Thank you for doing this Documentary of Germantown. Although I came to the United States young, I've maintained loving my country of Birth. & the old lady in the Documentary said to the guy don't mix. But if it was that bad, most of the offspring of their ancestors, should havego e bk then. J.A. is Beautiful & we're proud people! So I love the mixture of people, & they should also!
Excellent documentary David. So happy to see this. For those of us born in the 60’s and before, German Town was public knowledge and taught in schools. Many of us have family members born and raised in German Town. The Jamaica Observer did a historical series I think it was called “Pieces of the Past” They identified various ethnicities such as Lebanese, Germans, Chinese and Indians, and noted some came freely, but most came to Jamaica as indentured servants. This history has been intentionally hidden for political agendas to only recognize or promote African slavery as the origins of Jamaica. Every race or group that came to Jamaica seeks to maintain their own racial identity including slaves from Africa. That is not unique to German town, Africans or any other race. The Arawak Indians who were original to the island were said to no longer exist and that is not true. They are currently Jamaicans who carry the ancestry of the Arawak Indians who are the rightful indigenous people to the island before all others arrived on the island.
There are full blooded Arawak Indians in Cuba there is a documentary about it. look it up. The thing is they have their own parts in Cuba however they might have to interbreed with some other Caribbean tribe to survive without interbreeding.
Most were not SLAVES FROM AFRICA. They came to various countries and were ENSLAVED. There is a difference.
I’m part Arawak. I’m Jamaican mixed with indigenous Arawak & European. They still exist they just don’t want people to know we exist& that there are full blood Arawak & Carib indigenous people still living in the Caribbean islands.
@@zumaanandrade3961 that's not true one bit. The Cuban population is mixed (mostly Taíno, European, African).
They were captured by competing African tribes and enslaved in Africa, sacrificed in mass rituals, or sold as slaves to be exported. So i don't see how your distinguishing makes sense. They were captives in Africa and only became slaves once sold to Europeans? If they were captured with the intention of being enslaved at home ir abroad, then they were enslaved immediately upon capture. I doubt the captives made the distinction by the color of their masters skin. @dianemoore-eubanks7130
David Ritter is an incredible documentary movie maker. We think he should try his hand at a feature film now.
Very very interesting documentary. Thanks for this history of Jamaica
Really enjoyed watching your Well produced Video/Documentary of Seaford Town. Its a shame that until this day Jamaica keeps failing on teaching its children our full History Werther good or Bad Positive and Negative. I am a German Jamaican Germaican/Jaman😁 mother German father Jamaican Born and grown in Jamaica Up until 19 yes of age and i never knew German Town existed until around 2 yrs ago on CZcams. I've been living in Germany now since 2003 and Hope to visit Seaford on my next visit. I Hope the Younger Generations become more integrated to feel at Home and Like Jamaicans because for me nuhweh nuh feel Like yaad. And i say that after living in Germany for now almost 20 yrs and visiting Other Euro countries and countries in Africa. Jamaica is Special !
My Love to every fellow Jamaican wether white/yellow/black or brown 👍🏽🤜🏾
Teach our children what??? Just thank god you are a life
@@larosemurphy6640 thats a very wonderful comment you have given. There is saying If you have nothing productive to say then say nothing. I for one believe its very Important to know the History. If you dont thats upto you.
@@jessepeterfenton3973 well sitt on wait on it...that will never happen bye
A suh di ting set mi Breda wi naw mek dem trick wid dumb slave master mentality!! Laage up yuhself King🇯🇲❤️💯✅
The African Majority will get offended
I think I’ve seen a previous documentary about Germans living in Jamaica, but watching this one just brought up some stirred up feeling inside of me which made me want to write this comment. Me being a Jamaican, heard of slavery and the slave trade, and Christopher Columbus discovering Jamaica and all the others things that we were taught in school. We were never taught the whole truth about anything that happened back then. We still don’t know half of what took place back then because the veil has been covering our eyes all these years. It is now that I’m grown and have moved away from Jamaica, that I have researched and learned so much more about some of these things. I’m more enlightened and able to see the wickedness and the atrocities that were done to us as a black race and to other races too. But.... make no mistake, of all the races in the world, black people have been treated like shit by every other race, and even now when umpteenth of years have passed, and you think the racism and the mistreatment of black people would have stopped, it still exists everywhere. I know everyone is not racist but it still exists largely in a lot of countries. Even in our own Jamaica, it exists. Just as how black people were brought here from Africa and lost their identities, so were these Germans. I feel sorry for them that they felt that they didn’t want to mix with black people, therefore they kept their breed amongst themselves. Likewise, I can understand how and why black resent white people because of the history of the brutal treatment and slavery which they inflicted on us. If no other race understands that, then try being a black person in a racist white person’s world. We have every right, never to forget where we came from and under what circumstances we got here. These Germans didn’t teach their children their language and did not teach their children their heritage. They know where they came from but maybe none of their traditions are with them now. How do they think we feel?Black people were taken forcibly from their homeland, brought to a different country. We lost loved ones, cultures, languages, identities, taking on white men’s names, and still had to live and survive in the worst of conditions. Yes, our motto is out of many one people, but just the way we were brought here unwillingly, they were brought here unwillingly. We are the only race I see that is willing to forgive and forget our history to marry into any other race. Many times, other races are not so accepting of us marring into their races. You heard what that old white woman said. Don’t mix with them!!!! Lady, if we all had choices to make a decision as to where we wanted to live, most of us wouldn’t be where we found ourselves today. Life goes on and we have to try to make the best of our situations. So whether you are Black, White, Chinese, or whatever mixed up races you find yourselves in, be thankful for life and stop looking at the color of other peoples skin. Never forget where you’re coming from but live with love and try to be at peace with all men.
Well said! Life goes on….
Couldn't have said it any better myself!!!😊🇯🇲🇺🇲
So well said!!! I’m slightly lucky in so far as I’m part Nigerian and Jamaican. My mother was quite enlightened but I also have my father’culture. You are so right about the lies and wool that was pulled over our eyes. ( grew up in the Uk)
We should always be proud with our heads held up high and unite .
Well said my sister, we have come a very long way and still have a way to go as we can see from minor documentary, pore editing but we understood the story and appreciate it muchly, thanks again 👍🏾. Mi proud to be a Jamaican living in Canada 🇨🇦 .
So well said 👍👍 they came to out island and own 500 land and the natives didn’t got anything..
Codie I wish you all the best for the future. Wishing all of you 'love, peace and harmony'. from a Guyanese in London
Thank y’all for sharing your knowledge. Be blessed!
WHHHHAAAAA!!!! The full documentary is finally out, after all these years??? Amazing!
I am from SAVANNA LA MAR IN WESTMORELAND and went to HEART school for skills there in 2007 and fell in love with seafood town. Hope to go back there. So quiet
As A German that visits Jamacia often I never knew about this town. Great Documentary.
I think these people could easily move to Germany if they care to as the German Government allows anyone with German heritage that they can prove to move to Germany very easily.
Excellent production!❤Very informative, well-made and meaningful documentary filled with reality and sentimental value and nostalgia.... thank you for your great work in producing this for the public knowledge!
- Excellent filming and stories.
Thank you so much for watching.
@@ForgottenFaces001 You are welcome. I am watching from Old York...🙃🌞 ( New- York City ), but born in the Caribbean and raised .
You are an excellent filmmaker and I would appreciate you work on some more film that deals with history, roots and culture.
This documentary touched me on so many levels of human understanding. It also shows how Race and culture crosses path and often MERGES... become one.... in terms of a culture.
This is what makes us unique as Caribbean people.
@@kurlenejohn5463 There are many projects posted on this you tube channel showing past and present projects. I am currently focusing on work I have been doing in South Africa. I hope you can gain from it. - David
Excellent poem Cody.
Yes 👍
OMG, thank you for producing this documentary. I know the Hackers and Kamekas; It's good to see that Ms Kameka is still around.
I know the Kameka's as well . I am a Buckeridge
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work on my wish list when I return home 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Very informative and enjoyable history I am learning about my
country.
I was born in Jamaica Kingston. My mother is black Jamaican and my father is white German and I never knew of German town. I leave Jamaica to live in England 50 years ago.
Thanks for sharing. I definitely plan to visit one day.
Issu Darling
Well done. Give thanks.
What a great documentary on Jamaican culture. Being Jamaican and of mixed race as well it is refreshing to see the focus. Good job.
Great poem Codie you a good lad.
I love seaford town, thats where my great grandfather is from. Its not anymore pure blooded since the late 30. They where in many places and they also have alot of mix generation, and my Family is one of that mix
Thanks for this video I've learned a lot
I am a Jamaica and is the time I have heard about the German living in Jamaica that is new to I am so glad to that thank David
Loved this documentary. My grandfather was of German descent lived in Manchester. I appreciate the honesty 💕
Thank you Marie. This documentary was made with people like you in mind. - David Ritter
@@ForgottenFaces001 Most of the people in Saint Elizabeth are of mixed Germans and Africans ancestry.
@@peaceloveharmony8736 I would know I lived there.
@@ForgottenFaces001 Cool
@@ForgottenFaces001 Hey bro,can you read,speak or understand the German language?
What a beautiful poem from the young man ❤, bless his heart ❤
Beautiful documentary
What an EYE opener. God bless our country Jamaica.
Amazing Historical History !! 1835 !!👍🏻 A very interesting look into these situations !!
On my first visit to Jamaica I went there and heard of this town.
This is a very good documentary, shedding light on Jamaica's history
very interesting, thanks for sharing
Very interesting documentary.
My family is from Manchester with Irish and German heritage.
Thompson and Groves.
That old lady looks like she needs a one way ticket to Germany so that she will be in her element.
Are you talking about the old lady who wants to keep her white race "pure"? If so, I completely agree.
@@BelladoniusMonk Yes. She could definately represents one of Hitlers children.
Den look at har to?
@@BelladoniusMonkDon't you want to keep black pure,,We are too damn obsessed with our own struggles that we fail to understand other humans..Sad,no wonder why we can't strive.
@@davidscott3726 It is interesting how a walk through Kingston Jamaica you will see murals painted in honor of black nationalists every where Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and most all Jamaicans see these men as heroes to be respected and honored. Men who were against multi racialism and against races mixing but if an elderly white person who grew up in the turn of the century says only whites should marry whites they are deemed an evil nazi. Hypocrisy is an interesting thing.
@@ForgottenFaces001 the black nationalists and granny nazi were both wrong, so wrong they would marry their first cousin and subject their children to lives with disabilities. Sick!
Thank you very much. I know this very well! We also have this in St. Elizabeth!
excellent never knew this about my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 good to know the history
Thanks so much, it was wonderful to learn something knew about my country’s history. My family is mostly African with Indian descendants. My great-grandmother was half Indians and the rest was strongly African descendants. My sisters and I have really nice hair, mine is curled up most times even after I brush it curls back up and also hairy skin. I love these people and so happy they are apart of our culture.
Nice hair? People still use that term? Amazing!!
Absolutely the best documentary I've seen about Seaford Town/German Town and it's German-Jamaican residents. Alas, only a few remaining. I find it melancholy that they've lived and will die here knowing badically nothing about the other homeland. Beautifully narrated. Beautifully produced.❤️
Thank you so much for saying so and thank you for watching.
If they were born in Jamaica, that’s their homeland.
Millions of Afro-Jamaicans know nothing about their ancestral homeland either, that too is melancholic.
@@andrewDaMack Thank you. Its weird to me how so much empathy is granted to white people when they are in situations that non-white people are in every day and have been experiencing for centuries....yet nobody seems to feel a way about the melanated people's experience.
@@theaffiyaeffect As you know we have been conditioned to this - centuries of slavery and oppression and decades of mass media, movies and pop culture indoctrination. With each generation though, we as melanated people and Black people specifically are awakening.
Cool history! Love learning about the cultures of the world
Wow, never knew amazing. Thanks much
I never know any of this but I’ve learned a lot.🙏🏽🙏🏽
No shit
As a Jamaican, this is the first time I am hearing about this community, this is a well done documentary. Before this lady spoke about not wanting to mix with black Jamaicans. I was here wondering how is it that I have not seen any interracial persons. This is very interesting because they are so small in numbers where are they finding partners. This is borderline crazy. Oh the racism, "don't ever mix darling". The need to remain a pure breed for sure will cause their community to dwindle to nothing.
Agreed. The old lady saying "don't ever mix, darling" really did bothered me a bit. You would think being in Jamaica for generations would have made them more open minded and accepting towards other races. Smh
@@honeynation She still has the mind of a WS.
Yep, she is acting like white men always stay with white women and white marriages don't end in divorce. Lol
Jamaica is the most “African” of the Caribbean Islands, so if white Jamaicans feel estranged because of skin color, they should understand that being a tiny white minority in a predominantly black country comes with some challenges. The upside is that they seem to be getting along with their fellow black Jamaicans.
.. fascinating.. thanks for sharing this ..❤🙏🏽(🇨🇦)
Fascinating documentary! I never knew about the German settlements in Jamaica! Thanks!
Very interesting documentary thanks. Reminds me when I was in Venezuela, there is a German town there high up in the mountains. The Germans arrived there in 1850s and established a settlement called Colono Tuvar perhaps different spelling, The German settlement there is like a actual German Town, with original style German architecture in the houses and still speaking German language. James J Walsh in Limerick city Ireland 🇮🇪
The spelling is "Colonia Tovar" (Tovar Colony).
As usual very enlightening documentary about Jamaica. It might be useful to know there are similar stories to this, which refer more to the last world war between late 1930s to late 1940s, where some Germans escaped from their homeland, whilst others became refugees and lived a segregated life in other areas of Jamaica. That particular documentary on CZcams is called Germans in Jamaica War, Spies and Camps.
Its so nice To See People come togheter with out raising their eye brows
Thanks so kindly for sharing the history. I like History.
I learned a lot about my history ❤
So fascinating. I´m german. In Germany NO ONE knows anything about Seaford Town and the german descendents living there! Excellent. Danke und auf wiedersehen - wir sehen uns :-)
Germany is a good country.
great documentary
Interesting documentary. Reminds me somewhat of the poorer Dutch/Afrikaans people living in South Africa. Good video!
Very interesting!
My dad was from Seaford Town and spoke fluent German….. and would often speak to us in German 🤣we were always aware of the Germans in Seaford Town. My mother and all of her 12 siblings all have German first names I never understood the connection until she did her ancestry dna and it shows she has German ancestry 👀 I will have to do some more digging regarding this side of her ancestry as she is from St Thomas 🤔 also related to the maroons
Multiple waves of German migrants. Also people moved out of those towns for wprk and education.
Me as well same thing my grandfather was a German Jamaican my grandmother was a Jamaican maroon mixed with Spanish I’m assuming descendants of the moors from Seville Spain I’m watching this video to get some insight on my German Jamaican heritage
Informative documentary
Wow wow I love this documentary so much I’ve heard of Germantown from years back by my father he was from Saint Catherines Red hills The next time I go back to Jamaica Seaford town is definitely my next port of call 100%
i live in Seaford town east sussex England...i knew there were all colours in Jamaica great doc mate
The man who says he is a Germaican, sounds very lovely. May God bless all of them 😊
Informative
The poem is beautiful
Fascinating historical thread.
Out of many one people. So proud of Jamaica's motto.
Greetings, I once went there as a child, we knew a particular German-Jamaican family " the Collins " the family was a big one. Noel was a helpful man who came from that family, and he also stayed with us for years back in St. Andrew (Kingston) where we first met him. He carried us to where he was from and that's how I and my family got somewhat an experience of Seaford Town. Good video!
I was told my grandfather was from Seaforth Town, got married and live in Belvedere. My next trip I will visit.
@@annahheard9207 Greetings, make sure you do without any regrets
This was EXTREMELY fascinating and I learned quite a bit from watching. Eye-opening.
I am a white British guy who had a lovely two weeks in Montego Bay 20 years ago. Never experienced any racism and felt safe everywhere I went. I worked with a Jamaican in the U.K. by choice until after 7 months of him moaning about racism whilst being the biggest perpetrator I quit the job. We are going backwards, it is such a shame.
Quel surprise. A white man moaning about a black person’s experience of racism.
love jamaica, its so rich with beautifull people❤
Growing up (in St.Elizabeth) I use to hear about the boat/ship that crash over Treasure Beach. The Germans settled in both Treasure beach and Wesmoreland. My ancestors (dad side) are German and African mix! Shout out to the Myers Clan.
My family is from Treasure Beach and always believed that it was a ship from Scotland that sunk ..hence a lot of Scottish surnames in the area . Big up St Bess
Myers Clan 🤙🏼
Very interesting. My grandmother is from treasure beach but I grew up hearing that her family was of scottish decent. Blair / Reynolds were her family names.
@@thetalltourist3053 I saw this comment after i posted mine. WILD😳
@@theaffiyaeffect there’s a lot of history in the area that should’ve been passed down through the generations, I mean in some cases it has but there’s soo much more to learn . And a few surprises I bet . I remember speaking to my grandparents about what their grandparents looked like and it makes me even more intrigued to find out the real history of Treasure Beach . Family is from Frenchman beach and I need to go back real soon !!!
Very very interesting, I have visited seaford and knew about the Germans, and its very interesting hearing the whitr boy talking about how he has a hard time in school due to him being the colour he is... Jamaica is a land of many, out of many one people ✌️
Just came across this documentary found it to be very interesting and informative greetings from the UK
My friend who was born and raised in Westmoreland his from Seaford town. She’s related to Mr. Hacker the guy talking in the video but she moved to Canada. She has also a tik tok creator and it’s interesting because she talks about this story on her page. I’m from St Elizabeth so I’m well aware of this story
My great grandparents August and Mary Anne came on the Oldbrecht from Bremen but they settled in Alva, St. Ann.
My father's family from Seaford Town.... Never been there would like to go...
Seaford Town would be like a mecca for German tourists in Jamaica if some things can be packaged properly. Think about it
I don't think it would be any more special to a German than anywhere else in Jamaica. Germans probably do not feel much kinship to these Jamaicans of German heritage. People from "motherlands", whether Germany, other European countries, China or even Africa usually do not feel much kinship to their kinfolks who are in other lands. They do not see them as Germans anymore since they have been away from the homeland so long. If you read around, you will notice how Europeans are amazed that Americans would call themselves names like Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc. Maybe a few more Germans would visit, but I think they would be looking for the German influence in the town such architecture and not so much these German Jamaicans. As far as I see, not much German architecture is around in any of these Jamaican "German" towns.
I find it odd that at the end, the elderly German lady said if she could leave and move elsewhere, she would. But where would she go? I would think Germans in Germany would probably find her to be very odd, and I imagine it would be a culture shock for her too.
Grass is always greener on the otherside
Germany considers her German. She can move there. But she would probably miss Jamaica as soon as she lands in Germany. It would be so foreign. She just needs to look at the former East Germans. Ethnically, they are the same as the former West Germans, but to this day the former East Germans don't feel comfortable in Germany.
I love this
We jamaican will always embrace and accept you my brothers and sisters from German town/Seaford. Don't mind the few misguided ones. One love
the younger generation would be a lot more interested in them.
@@koolkidz9193 read ur history and see who u are and do for self.
Bad advice! Everybody has to "mind the few misguided ones".
True facts hopefully everyone pays our family history is so mix with other culture not just African we have so much more to list blessed love to all 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Do they embrace and accept you? Its not that we hate them its that we hate ourselves and chase after other races who dont buisness with us. They seem to have happily for the most part kept to themselves. I wonder why
What a bright and loving young man (Cody)