While we’re on the way I’ll tell you a bit about Jamaica’s history. Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Caribbean. In 1494 Christopher Columbus arrived and claimed the island for Spain. For the next 150 years Jamaica was a Spanish colony called Santiago. In 1655 the British conquered Jamaica and the Spanish colonists fled freeing their black slaves to escape into the mountains. The British continued to bring slaves from Africa to work on the many sugar plantations making Jamaica the world’s biggest sugar producer. 

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