The African Tribes that Came to Jamaica Part 1🇯🇲🌍
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2023
- You might have heard some Jamaicans calling Africa our homeland. Our most famed National Hero, Marcus Garvey Through the UNIA, pushed to support the "back to Africa" movement, and created the Black Star Line to act as the Black owned passenger line that would carry patrons back and forth to Africa. Africa is where many of our ancestors are from. Our ancestors were brought here by force through slavery and that in itself is a brutal and dehumanizing part of our history which we will explore in another video.
This video is a continuation of our series, "Out of Many, One People" where we speak to the Africans who came. So, let's get into it. According to research, the first Africans arrived in Jamaica in 1513 as servants to the Spanish settlers. These Africans were freed by the Spanish when the English captured the island in 1655. They immediately fled to the mountains where they fought to retain their freedom and became the first Maroons.
For those who need a refresher, the Spanish were the first to colonize Jamaica. It was called Xaymaca at the time and the indigenous group called the Tainos/Arawaks lived here. Christopher Columbus' arrival to Jamaica in 1494 disrupted the tainos' lives and brought diseases and destruction, almost causing the Tainos to be wiped from Jamaicans' bloodline. The Spanish had some Africa slaves but it was the British who fought the Spanish to get Jamaica as one of their colonies that brought the most Africans through the Trans-altantic Slave Trade. Sadly, the slave trade was facilitated by Africans abducting other Africans.
The abducted/captured were then placed in trading posts or forts to await the six- to twelve-week Middle Passage voyage between Africa and the Americas. And that's something we'll also explore in another video. Note The slave trade was abolished in 1807. By then, almost 2 million slaves were traded to Jamaica. So you see why Jamaicans are 90% African descendants?
But who were the Africans who came to Jamaica? Weh dem come from? What culture, language, practices they brought with them? And which country or countries in Africa should Jamaicans call home?
Now, we often say Africa as a collective but it is such a unique continent. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both aspects. Over 50 countries with about 3,000 tribes and 2,000 languages and dialects. The cultures of Africa are multi-layered and multifaceted with a complex history. So it's important we know more about the countries, tribes and cultures and not just use a blanket statement that we are from Africa. There's just so much more to know.
Now as it relates to where in Africa our African ancestors are from, research shows Most Jamaican slaves came from the region of modern day Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa, and included the Akan, Ashanti, Yoruba, Ibo and Ibibio peoples. It is stated that the majority of the Africans brought here were Akan people. The Akan (/ˈækæn/) people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. The Akan includes sub groups such as Ashanti, Fante, Bono, Agona and more. Our next video in this series which look into the people and culture of the Akan which is said to be one of the largest ethnic groups in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. So, watch out fi part 2. This is just a short introduction to what's coming next in this series.
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Good day @destinatio jamaica. I just discovered your channel and I love the content. I am just starting to get onto jamaican history, do have any recommendations for books to read for beginners?
Blessed day, that's great. Try Out of Many, One People by Kavion Robinson, here's the link:a.co/d/bEFh8Jn
I think that many Jamaicans are decended from mainly West African tribes, such as the Ashanti tribe.
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African had been traveling to jamaica 1000 years before Columbus by boats also African the moors had been fleeing from Europe Spain to jamaica in the 12 and 1313th century the first ship that went to Africa is called Jesus the ashanti people are the first to selling African to European
Tribes did not come to the West Indies!!!!
Bad introduction 😮
"Out of Many, One People", does NOT refer to African tribes but to the many racial groups and ethnicities that created and built jamaica and they were Irish, Chinese, Indians, Africans, Jewish, etc.
Where were all these people when Arawak was fighting the British militia for 90 years before the Spanish 150-year paper genocide Arawak in 1962
Correct
@@cowquinta-sz8uvthank you! Arawaks are still here all over the island. Misclassed as Africans, Negro, Black…
@@cowquinta-sz8uvwhat the heck is wrong with persons like you? Are you people on some special kind of cocaine or something? This Arawak nonsense will not go away.
Let’s talk about the Africans who came on their own accord long before the Spanish and Columbus . There were African people in Jamaica living peacefully with the so called Indians, long before these Devils got here. Let’s find information and dissect that part. I appreciate your work.
Dodge that African hijack nonsense the only African came to Jamaica was the Sephardic Jews aka maroon from North Africa Indian does not mean the fur on your head it means the people of God look up kumina we Hebrew
@@owenowen6988 when Hebrew was in slavery running with the propaganda about slavery still where was the last slave houses
Fake history. Go read about the maroons. You are showing Bantu people. The curling hair with the gun are Taino Arawaks not Africans.