Free black people in Jamaica
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Free black people in Jamaica
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Free black people in Jamaica fell into two categories. Some secured their freedom officially, and lived within the slave communities of the Colony of Jamaica. Others ran away from slavery, and formed independent communities in the forested mountains of the interior. This latter group included the Jamaican Maroons, and subsequent fugitives from the sugar and coffee plantations of coastal Jamaica. In 1838, all black people in Jamaica were emancipated, but in post-slavery Jamaica they continued to
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