Brief Political History of Jamaica

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.

[@zowaynewilliams9360]

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

thank you for the kind words!

[@YourMomIsJamaican]

​@same

[@Illstatefishing]

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]

Many?

[@Coolidge2329]

Defund Ukrainians

[@hainleysimpson1507]

⁠@@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]

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

[@luisfilipe2023]

Imperialism ended long ago stop moaning

[@StizzyM1]

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]

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]

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💯

Thank you for the comment.

[@ldcg3484]

Brilliant and in-depth video. Thank you!

[@philliplyn2692]

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

[@Xonline9]

ur videos are amazing - never stop

[@user-ks1pd4dp4u]

Blessing to you Empress one love

[@blackice3395]

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]

Well done Sir.

[@yvettelyn66]

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]

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

[@BlackArmyVeteran1]

Good video

[@user-he8ws1wy6r]

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

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]

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

good point @@user-he8ws1wy6r

[@want3622]

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.

[@forrest8135]

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

[@ordinaryyute1868]

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

[@terrell112]

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

[@ItsT.tradezofficial]

Can u do a brief political history on Guyana

It's on the queue

[@kingdomofgarvin3432]

That's what's up

[@donjames7971]

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]

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

[@QuestionEverything-qp6kw]

@@presterjohn1697 good question.

[@presterjohn1697]

@@QuestionEverything-qp6kw Thanks.

[@bimtraveler]

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.

[@gogettalorri]

❤

[@angelawallace6797]

Wow

[@regdubwise883]

Hugh Lawson Shearer…first black P M of Jamaica

[@Kawbkilla187]

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

[@biulaimh3097]

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

[@Paratus7]

No. Pointless.

[@shavaughndavidson2257]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

@@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]

@@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

[@QuestionEverything-qp6kw]

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

which ones were those?

[@QuestionEverything-qp6kw]

@ 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.

@@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]

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

[@ani65ans94]

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!😮

[@eyelandgal]

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

[@QuestionEverything-qp6kw]

@LeMulatto Professor naw, he MAJORLY butchered names. 🤷

[@kennymurphywg6037]

George busch 🤔

[@normasarsby1350]

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

[@yvettelyn66]

He said BRIEF?

[@TheFlaminFire888]

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

indeed he was

[@everychordever4339]

Image of "Bogle" is not him.

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

[@everychordever4339]

@ 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.

@@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]

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.

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

[@innersparkwellness]

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.

[@ZarktheShark94]

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

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

[@thomaslegg3466]

If tink say you bad go dey nor

[@triple_gem_shining]

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

[@blessGODDESSbless1977]

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

[@garrysmith5562]

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

[@blackice3395]

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

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]

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

[@daviddaley7724]

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

[@terrell112]

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

[@shavaughndavidson2257]

West indies federation ...

[@seankingman4058]

Good.information

[@BibleSamurai]

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

[@jeanglaze9907]

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

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

[@enoehtgambino8986]

🧢

[@barbarafindley8421]

Talk the truth about Cia and seaga mash up jamaica

[@uglahhmane]

Lol George Bush is not who brought Bananas to America 😂

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

[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

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

[@Paratus7]

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.

[@taikeewill16]

tIANOS? WHERE IS THE PROOF?

[@blackallday]

I just wanted to know what happened to Nanny

[@everychordever4339]

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]

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

[@hainleysimpson1507]

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

[@bobbywomack5015]

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

[@evonnejames6548]

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]

What?

[@junaplantbased9093]

Lies

[@jasonbuchanan6789]

Wow