Brief Political History of Jamaica

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  • Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
  • This video explores the basics of Jamaican history and politics to explain how the island went from a Spanish colony to a British one, how despite massive resistance of enslaved people, it never had a successful revolution like Haiti's. It begins with Columbus and goes all the way to the current Prime Minister Andrew Holness, with coverage of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the 1938 Labour Riots etc.

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  • @zowaynewilliams9360
    @zowaynewilliams9360 11 місяців тому +33

    I am a Jamaican and I say 'well done'!

  • @ThenameisKyle67
    @ThenameisKyle67 2 місяці тому +5

    As a black American, I say well done my Jamaican Brethren!
    ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

  • @josephgerminario8481
    @josephgerminario8481 2 місяці тому +4

    Thank you for teaching people not to be simple and learn there history

  • @philliplyn2692
    @philliplyn2692 11 місяців тому +8

    Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @Illstatefishing
    @Illstatefishing 3 роки тому +114

    Even though many of these Latin American and Caribbean countries are independent, many still suffer from vicious sanctions, blockades and coups from imperialist nations

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Рік тому +3

      Many?

    • @Coolidge2329
      @Coolidge2329 Рік тому

      Defund Ukrainians

    • @hainleysimpson1507
      @hainleysimpson1507 11 місяців тому

      ⁠@@tvs9978Yes throughout the Americas, from Mexico all the way down to Peru and Argentina. Remember that the USA had plans to conquer the Americas and kill off non whites. USA stole Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, New Mexico, from the Mexican people and government with the help of corrupt nobles in Mexico.

    • @natedizzy4939
      @natedizzy4939 11 місяців тому

      Are there even "many" of these nations to begin with 😂😂

    • @luisfilipe2023
      @luisfilipe2023 10 місяців тому +3

      Imperialism ended long ago stop moaning

  • @StizzyM1
    @StizzyM1 2 роки тому +32

    I was taught none of this history at school. So I spent the past 5 years learning about my family in Jamaica and the history of Jamaica. It’s taken a long time because I can’t access the archives in Jamaica so I’ve tracked my own family tree. Through this I discovered that Andrew Holness’ wife, Juliet Holness is my grandmother’s sister. My grandmother and Juliet went to the same school in St. Catherine, Andrew also went to that same school where he met Juliet. Thanks for this video I have learned a lot. 🙏🏾

    • @romeokilo4535
      @romeokilo4535 Рік тому +3

      damn shame ain't it. I'm about to be 40 and had to self teach.. not just slavery or European accounts because it's only a recent portion of history. 100s of thousands of years of history is disregarded as "savagery" when really the modern world is built off the original people's that get little to no credit of events prior to colonialism

  • @DogzOnGoTV
    @DogzOnGoTV 7 місяців тому +7

    Great lesson a lot of people avoid hearing this kind of history, but it needs to be heard and it needs to be known and needs to be taught to children in the schools around the world shout out to your channel man you’re doing great work💯

    •  7 місяців тому

      Thank you for the comment.

  • @ldcg3484
    @ldcg3484 2 роки тому +5

    Brilliant and in-depth video. Thank you!

  • @Xonline9
    @Xonline9 2 роки тому +5

    ur videos are amazing - never stop

  • @blackice3395
    @blackice3395 2 роки тому +10

    Great video this explains a lot I've just recently visited Jamaica. And I was saying to myself the whole weekend how is Christianity their religion. Once again great video

  • @TheNutzandBoltz
    @TheNutzandBoltz 5 місяців тому +1

    Well done Sir.

  • @want3622
    @want3622 2 роки тому +7

    Such a sad history. Prime example of how Evil Human Nature can be when power and advantage is involved. To this day entire nations of people are suffering, while I am in a developed country with no issues at all and never had nothing bad done to me. so sad.

  • @user-ks1pd4dp4u
    @user-ks1pd4dp4u 10 місяців тому +1

    Blessing to you Empress one love

  • @BlackArmyVeteran1
    @BlackArmyVeteran1 2 роки тому +3

    Good video

  • @yvettelyn66
    @yvettelyn66 Рік тому +17

    Imagine the British were wicked to Jamaica and when they came. Bands were out, people cheering, thinking it’s a wonderful thing.
    Nooooooo they brought us from west Africa, India and treated us worse than animals. Know your history.

    • @Paratus7
      @Paratus7 2 місяці тому

      What absolute garbage. Were you there? Take that chip off your shoulder. Know YOUR history!

  • @terrell112
    @terrell112 8 місяців тому +1

    Big up Jamaica for being so strong! My grandfather’s father family owned port royal back is 1700 or 1800 Ambrose Nicholas Yates (Cramer) & his wife smh…. Big up Westmoreland that’s where my grandfathers mother & father side which was British/ Irish settled & it hurts me as a black man I have the blood of Beckford in me smh realistically those are cousins

  • @ordinaryyute1868
    @ordinaryyute1868 2 роки тому +7

    Our political system need to resemble the Swiss…the politicians of yesteryears really failed to make any improvement on the average persons Quality of life ..sad …hope this coming generations can really turn things around JA ..WE CAN WE MUST

  • @donjames7971
    @donjames7971 3 роки тому +15

    As with all countries, it appears evident that in order for a country to grow humanely the people need to have investments in spiritual-values, critical-thinking and problem-solving education alongside economic 'n technological growth .. .

    • @presterjohn1697
      @presterjohn1697 3 роки тому +6

      How do you suggest protecting against present day imperialist nations (USA, China, Canada, UK)?

    • @QuestionEverything-qp6kw
      @QuestionEverything-qp6kw 3 роки тому +1

      @@presterjohn1697 good question.

    • @presterjohn1697
      @presterjohn1697 3 роки тому +1

      @@QuestionEverything-qp6kw Thanks.

  • @user-he8ws1wy6r
    @user-he8ws1wy6r 11 місяців тому

    You should make a video talking about the brief political history of Equatorial Guinea

    •  11 місяців тому

      At some point I'll expand to Africa. When I do I will do one in Equatorial Guinea, but that is a bit away still.

    • @user-he8ws1wy6r
      @user-he8ws1wy6r 11 місяців тому

      @ i'm just saying because Equatorial Guinea is the only spanish-speaking nation in Africa.

    •  11 місяців тому

      good point @@user-he8ws1wy6r

  • @Deborah-dw4vy
    @Deborah-dw4vy 6 днів тому +1

    Jamaica and we love like and comment if you are from Jamaica

  • @ItsT.tradezofficial
    @ItsT.tradezofficial 2 роки тому +1

    Can u do a brief political history on Guyana

    •  2 роки тому +1

      It's on the queue

  • @forrest8135
    @forrest8135 2 роки тому +13

    So interesting only 70 likes. Now I understand the controversy over CRT.

  • @kingdomofgarvin3432
    @kingdomofgarvin3432 3 роки тому +3

    That's what's up

  • @regdubwise883
    @regdubwise883 2 роки тому +4

    Hugh Lawson Shearer…first black P M of Jamaica

    • @Kawbkilla187
      @Kawbkilla187 2 роки тому +3

      He was also a strong opposer of Rasta and the black liberation as a whole.

  • @gogettalorri
    @gogettalorri 4 місяці тому

  • @angelawallace6797
    @angelawallace6797 2 роки тому

    Wow

  • @shavaughndavidson2257
    @shavaughndavidson2257 3 роки тому +8

    P.s. the open warfare was due to guns from the Americans and the Soviet government because the both wanted a country of their own model

    • @presterjohn1697
      @presterjohn1697 3 роки тому +2

      The US didn't simply give Jamaica guns because they wanted them to be like the US. The US violently destabilized popular social democratic movements throughout the western hemisphere (the caribbean, central and south america) in favor of US business interests and the cocaine trade.

    • @QuestionEverything-qp6kw
      @QuestionEverything-qp6kw 3 роки тому +7

      @@presterjohn1697 you're ABSOLUTELY correct in your statement about destabilization of Caribbean and South American nations. That's the "good" ol imperialist USA for ya!

    • @ordinaryyute1868
      @ordinaryyute1868 2 роки тому +1

      Fair comment ..both side wanted the same thing…USA has been really strategic with their foreign policy and defense ..they understood from very early the strength of unity and the fear of authoritarian leaders to invading other country for their own interest …someone had to came out victorious…some ppl confuse war with being WHO IS RIGHT?..when it’s not ..ppl in cuba still complain about the communism just the same ..at the least the other comments could have been fair enough

    • @shavaughndavidson2257
      @shavaughndavidson2257 2 роки тому +2

      @@ordinaryyute1868 America has nothing against authoritarianism they have supported them all around the world eg. argentina and Spain all they wanted to know was that they weren't communists.

    • @ordinaryyute1868
      @ordinaryyute1868 2 роки тому

      @@shavaughndavidson2257 I said they understood how the dictator think..after while the power gets to head so they invade other countries for their own interests…all I’m say be fair the Soviet a wasn’t all that good either

  • @biulaimh3097
    @biulaimh3097 11 місяців тому +4

    Should Jamaica leave the British commonwealth and follow Columbia`s lead in adopting Swahili as one of it`s official languages?

    • @Paratus7
      @Paratus7 2 місяці тому

      No. Pointless.

  • @ani65ans94
    @ani65ans94 2 місяці тому

    YOH a tribes man of Dan. Mother to a servant. Because Rebecca was barren at the time. And she raised him ,and made a promise to the most HIGH. Let no comb or razor touch his head. His name was SAMSON!😮

  • @bimtraveler
    @bimtraveler 10 місяців тому +1

    F.Y.I I just want to correct you on some information and that is the first black Prime minister of jamaican wasn't PJ but indeed Hugh Lawson Shearer. Thank you.

  • @QuestionEverything-qp6kw
    @QuestionEverything-qp6kw 3 роки тому +5

    Thanks for the video. I found the information quite interesting. Only wish you hadn't BUTCHERED names. 🤦

    •  3 роки тому +1

      which ones were those?

    • @QuestionEverything-qp6kw
      @QuestionEverything-qp6kw 3 роки тому +5

      @ Hailey Selassie (his first name)
      Edward Seaga ( his last name)
      Portia Simpson-Miller (her first name)
      Also, noticed you said "resigned" when speaking about the gas tax law that caused rioting. I think you meant "rescinded"? As I said in previous comment, good video with very interesting information. Thanks for doing it.

    •  3 роки тому +5

      @@QuestionEverything-qp6kw thank you for the info. I looked up Seaga's name. Clearly I got it wrong. Thank you for the info.

    • @QuestionEverything-qp6kw
      @QuestionEverything-qp6kw 3 роки тому +2

      @ hopefully you'll be able to find info on the others. I'm a native.

  • @TheFlaminFire888
    @TheFlaminFire888 Рік тому +2

    Very good except Hugh Shearer was jamaica's first black prime minister

    •  Рік тому

      indeed he was

  • @kennymurphywg6037
    @kennymurphywg6037 Рік тому

    George busch 🤔

  • @Radjhitoocool
    @Radjhitoocool 25 днів тому

    Jamaica met joyboy

  • @normasarsby1350
    @normasarsby1350 9 місяців тому +1

    Please get the pronunciations of names right. It is important for history and the credibility of your channel.

  • @eyelandgal
    @eyelandgal 3 роки тому +6

    This was a well put together video with a lot of accuracy but you butchered some of the names.

  • @yvettelyn66
    @yvettelyn66 Рік тому

    He said BRIEF?

  • @thomaslegg3466
    @thomaslegg3466 Рік тому

    If tink say you bad go dey nor

    • @triple_gem_shining
      @triple_gem_shining 10 місяців тому

      You know, learning to speak full english will increase your prospects..

  • @innersparkwellness
    @innersparkwellness 4 місяці тому

    Good video, however , unless I missed something you forgot about indentured slaves that came from India, China, Germany. Also there is the Portuguese, the Jewish , Syrians. What happened to this part of the History. Aldo the Tainos w here inhabiting the island that’s why it’s called West Indies because he thought he was in India. You missed a huge part of the History that makes up Jamaica, the coat of arms with the Arawaks on it and disrespectfully missing out all the people who make up the motto of out of many one people. BTWY I Am Jamaica, as many Jamaicans are ethnically mixed of which mine is India Spanish Portuguese, Scottish African. Pleases do not say Jamaican history in 20 minutes when you only give a portion.

  • @everychordever4339
    @everychordever4339 2 роки тому +1

    Image of "Bogle" is not him.

    •  2 роки тому +1

      Paul Bogle is not the image I used? That's weird because that's the guy that is on Jamaican money.

    • @everychordever4339
      @everychordever4339 2 роки тому

      @ It may be weird, but the photo is also used by Black History supporters for inventor Thomas Jennings. Neither is the right age, and photo does not match Bogle's description. The photo and image on the currency are more likely of Rev. James Service of Portland, Jamaica. In any case, the gentleman is shown wearing a lady's coat, which seems somewhat disrespectful no matter who it is.

    •  2 роки тому +2

      @@everychordever4339 I was unaware that there was a dispute about Bogle's likeness. I used the image that the Jamaican government has in their money. This seems like an obvious problem.

    • @everychordever4339
      @everychordever4339 2 роки тому +1

      I am not the only person aware of this - it has been reported in the Gleaner newspaper, for example, but the error is hard to extinguish now. I think Bogle, Jennings and Service all made contributions that deserve to be remembered as accurately as possible.

    •  2 роки тому

      @@everychordever4339 you are definitely not the only person. Absolutely true.

  • @blessGODDESSbless1977
    @blessGODDESSbless1977 Рік тому

    !WORLD SHAME!
    !WORLD SHAME!
    !WORLD SHAME!
    !A DAT DI ISLAND GET!

  • @BibleSamurai
    @BibleSamurai 4 місяці тому

    all us black, indigenous, and brown folks have a common enemy

  • @ZarktheShark94
    @ZarktheShark94 8 місяців тому

    So the original ppl of the island were just wiped out?

    •  8 місяців тому +2

      More or less, yes. Through assimilation, Spanish abuse or disease.

    • @Junje-ri9jo
      @Junje-ri9jo 20 днів тому

      We are the original 🖕🏿

  • @blackice3395
    @blackice3395 2 роки тому +1

    So help me understand. Jamaica was a deserted island until the Spanish found the island and brought the slaves?

    •  2 роки тому +15

      No, of course not. The video says that when the Spanish got there, "they encountered a group of local Tainos, subsistence farmers who organized themselves into communal villages and called their home Xaymaca, or “land of wood and water”.

    • @toltecways639
      @toltecways639 2 роки тому +7

      poor Tainos their history got erased that people actually believe that Jamaica was deserted

    • @daviddaley7724
      @daviddaley7724 4 місяці тому

      Remember it was inhabited by tanios a group of farmers and they called it xaymaca when columbus supposedly arrived..

  • @terrell112
    @terrell112 8 місяців тому

    Or Ambrose Nicholas Yates (Cramer) wasn’t a true blood Yates he was a Irishman he married a Beckford sister as his sister did - Google it

  • @garrysmith5562
    @garrysmith5562 2 роки тому

    Cant focus on what you are saying with the catchy music in the background

  • @shavaughndavidson2257
    @shavaughndavidson2257 3 роки тому +4

    West indies federation ...

  • @jeanglaze9907
    @jeanglaze9907 Рік тому

    How can you say the Spanish were the first Europeans I’m confused

    •  Рік тому +5

      they were the first to set eyes on the island. I'm not sure what's confusing about that.

  • @barbarafindley8421
    @barbarafindley8421 7 місяців тому +1

    Talk the truth about Cia and seaga mash up jamaica

  • @enoehtgambino8986
    @enoehtgambino8986 Рік тому

    🧢

  • @vercingetorixwulf9298
    @vercingetorixwulf9298 6 місяців тому

    Spanish means JEWS here! ....... Siempre el mismo

  • @uglahhmane
    @uglahhmane 5 місяців тому

    Lol George Bush is not who brought Bananas to America 😂

    •  5 місяців тому +2

      Not George Bush. George Busch, a sea captain that had nothing to do with the President.
      www.moonjamaica.com/call-out/portlands-banana-boom

  • @AirborneAirAssault6565
    @AirborneAirAssault6565 14 годин тому

    Trust in God, not man!

  • @desrankine1935
    @desrankine1935 2 місяці тому

    This is a lie. Partly. Jamaica is located in north america continent and the natives as te north americans aka jamaican arawaks. The spanish arrivwd from spain and twaret the native Jamaicans then the british saw the genoside the spanish commited and atteked te spanish. The spanish did the worse. The slaves documents this from personal accounts from the native jamaicans. They are not arawaks they are native jamaican arawaks

  • @taikeewill16
    @taikeewill16 3 роки тому +2

    tIANOS? WHERE IS THE PROOF?

    • @blackallday
      @blackallday 2 роки тому +1

      I just wanted to know what happened to Nanny

    • @everychordever4339
      @everychordever4339 2 роки тому +5

      The Maroons have an extensive knowledge of plants in the Jamaican jungle, including species that are not found in Africa. Some of this knowledge is so complex it could only have been developed over many generations. For example, chocolate requires at least 7 non-obvious steps to prepare. Hans Sloane is given credit for the recipe, but all he did was say he preferred the drink that contained milk which was offered to him, after he had sampled the non-milk version. The Maroons could only have gotten this and other knowledge from the Tianos.

    • @toltecways639
      @toltecways639 2 роки тому

      so they are on other islands but not Jamaica? Christopher Columbus wrote about them what else proof do you need

    • @hainleysimpson1507
      @hainleysimpson1507 11 місяців тому +1

      Lots of bones of non African non european humans as lord as 2000 years have been found in the hills and plains.

    • @michaelmaxwell2464
      @michaelmaxwell2464 Місяць тому

      Cave markings, pottery

  • @Paratus7
    @Paratus7 2 місяці тому

    This is somewhat disingenuous. Jamaica is more than a history of ‘slavery’. Michael Manley was catastrophic for the country and destroyed any hope after Independence.. crime, anti white, drug cartels and terrible violence. What follows was economic and social problems. Liberal teaching has linked this to ‘colonialism’ when in fact it is those who did not build on the foundations left by British colonialism (government, civil service, health, viable industries, education, army, police, financial infrastructure) - it was all dismantled. Now Jamaican politicians have sold the soul of the country to China. It won’t end well. Give me Jamaica in the 1960s over the country today - any time.

  • @bobbywomack5015
    @bobbywomack5015 2 роки тому +1

    The queen should stay head of state or the UK should invade

    • @evonnejames6548
      @evonnejames6548 2 роки тому

      Are you having a laugh those days are over just ask the so called imposters who came to visit recently lol new generation that are above foolery and HiStory just interested in Our Story and REPARATIONS

    • @user-je6rf2zh7y
      @user-je6rf2zh7y Рік тому

      What?

  • @junaplantbased9093
    @junaplantbased9093 5 місяців тому

    Lies

  • @jasonbuchanan6789
    @jasonbuchanan6789 Рік тому

    Wow