Did You Know There's a hidden African Cemetery Beneath One of Jamaica's Largest Markets?

In the heart of downtown Kingston, Jamaica, lies the bustling Coronation Market, a vibrant hub where vendors sell everything from fresh produce to handmade crafts. But beneath this lively market lies a hidden history that many are unaware of - an African cemetery.
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[@trudy-annbarracks6418]

I love this channel you see. I love history! One of my favorite thing to do is read, research and talk about history. My friend asked me to start a history channel but I am too shy for this. Continue doing what you're doing! Your channel teaches us alot! ❤

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Thank you so much, am Elated. I think you should start a history channel, plus me nuh think you shy like me. Thanks for watching, stay blessed.

[@desmondgrant65]

Queen Victoria was not crowned in 1938. She died in 1901. Redemption Ground Market on West Queen Street was the cemetery. During the construction the bodies were exhumed and transferred to the May Pen Cemetery. The KSAC at the time had to put in security measures to prevent obeahmen from stealing the bones during the transfer. Coronation. Market was opened in 1953 to commemorate the crowning of Queen Elizabeth.

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Hi Trudy-ann myself too is a history lover and applaud the wonderful research work this gentleman is doing while keeping us informed....❤🙏

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@trudy-annsmall9600 Thank you so much, and thanks for watching

[@christinepage9811]

These are the things that should be thought in history classes.

[@mystery5655]

Jamaica's top historian. Always unearthing new information to enlighten viewers of our lesser known history.

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings Family and thanks for watching

[@calligraphy4851]

What?!?!? I learn something new everday.

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings, I am happy you learnt something new, please share. Thank you for watching

[@My_Yout]

Bro, it come in like seh a you alone know dem historical facts yah. I had NEVER heard of this. Please continue your research and continue to educate us. Thanks.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching bro, I think sometimes they purposely try to keep these things hidden from us.

[@My_Yout]

@@EliteJamaica there's no "thinking." They DO intentionally keep them hidden.

[@raskdajah1159]

😅him alone kno these things. They don't teach us this in school and I'm a trained teacher. This isn't in our curriculum 😮

[@EliteJamaica]

@raskdajah1159 that's why I cover lesser known facts as with most videos on my channel

[@raskdajah1159]

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[@jaszculturevibes]

These things should be taught in the classrooms. I'm in my 40ish, and I didn't know about graves under the market

[@kennoybrown3946]

"The earth under us is really unknown" is very literal. Respect for shedding light on this history

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings bro

[@juniormcclure139]

Thanks..I learned some new JAMAICAN history

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings and thanks for watching

[@elainecampbell9701]

Thank you for taking the time to share the lost HISTORY of JAMAICA 🇯🇲. 1❤

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for your support, please share

[@jeromefoster7134]

Were the Graves relocate

[@EliteJamaica]

@jeromefoster7134 No I can't find any info to suggest that

[@carolcapleton7956]

As usual very educational and interesting and entertaining thank you

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@kingjjmostwanted]

I love these history lessons... Thank you!!!

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@lenah4160]

Me too

[@Jennifer-xt2no]

Thank you for the information in our history that is not taught to us.🙏

[@lenah4160]

Thank you for this interesting information, when I was a young girl growing up in Jamaica 🇯🇲 I remembered going to Cornation Market and seeing a thombstone at the back of the market by the old train tracks in the Market it was a gambling spot where men use throw dice 🎲

[@errolstephenson8505]

It's not train tracks it's trap car tracks that was public transportation

[@tb22k]

Love learning new things ❤

[@delroylawford3282]

Thank you very much for educating us. I did not know about this at all. Please keep up the good work 👏

[@brendabrown7803]

Thanks again Alex for sharing , it makes my heart bleeds now we know how our people suffered 😢

[@EliteJamaica]

It was tragic

[@normahamilton2985]

Now??

[@evertonvenair2362]

Alex, thank for teaching us about our ancestors and our Jamaica Island good to educating the massive elite Jamaica

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings everytime Everton, stay safe and thanks for watching

[@reubenbrown6452]

There are many buildings over cemeteries, from commercial to private homes.Most recent is the old Choloria Cemetery, which now boast a new mall.There is also on Cumberland Road and the corner of white church Street sits a commercial building on what used to be a Cemetery. These practices existed all over the world.

[@chariseh9524]

Used to walk through the cemetery on my way to Spanish Town Primary, now that spot is a supermarket. Wonder if it's haunted? 🤔

[@errolstephenson8505]

Yes I remembered it some Spanish people buried there in the 1780 I saw head stone

[@fredwebb8633]

My,father,carry,food,to,that Market,on,,truck,in,,50s, That ,l,was,8,YEAR S, I,HEARD,HE,SAYS,THESAME AS,WHAT,YOU,SAID ❤❤❤❤❤

[@manleygreen5678]

Thanks, more Historical Sites please!

[@cynthiacatnott9012]

Thank you ! Never heard of this before.Not in my history classes.😮

[@EliteJamaica]

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[@sylviagrant8130]

Thank you elite Jamaica 🇯🇲 for this history of Jamaica

[@EliteJamaica]

Thank you for watching

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Very interesting. Never heard of this history. Thank you! ❤🇯🇲

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I came up on your videos on night and from that I am in love and cant stop watching your channel

[@EliteJamaica]

That's so motivating to hear, comments like these keep me going. Thanks for your support and thanks for watching

[@mariawood1951]

Well-informed content, thanks for sharing this important part of history. Our ancestors are smiling❤

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@TheAnton35]

This is very interesting. Didn't know about this. However, there's an error concerning the year of Queen Victoria being crowned. She wasn't crowned in 1938. She was crowned in 1838.

[@EliteJamaica]

Yes thats a mistake, it was suppose to be George iv

[@shashonnaclough3008]

Thank you for sharing this historical information 🙏

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching please share

[@hodgemoss]

I once knew a lovely Jamaican lady in London who was called Sadie Campbell may she rest in peace. She said she was a higgler in Coronation market Kingston Jamaica. She was a food seller . Small world! It’s wonderful to hear this history. A wonderful lady who was loved by all. Sadie you are gone but not forgotten.

[@altheawhyte2328]

Wow, thanks for this information!

[@cynthiawilliams2703]

Thank you for this information. Very interesting. Even though there are corrections in the comments, you had me locked.❤

[@gee2874]

I’m born and live in England and already knew this THANKS for bringing this to attention

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@jenf9272]

Very interesting piece of history.

[@user-ql3fo5jq2s]

I used to go as a teenager to coronation, triggerfoot& other markets in ksac,kgn.j.a ,st. Andrews,Great story

[@millicentdavis8559]

Good morning and thank u for the history on carnation market I didn't know all that more blessings

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings to you and thanks for watching, please share

[@queenmiserable9495]

This is fascinating and I didnt know this. Each one Teach one! 🙌🏾

[@ashannielinton3209]

Tankh u very much for this information.

[@abrahamsmith7336]

I remember people would go to sell their products and all of a sudden would just drop dead a lot of people died in that market people who just went to sell their products and then after a while they don’t report how many more died I knew it was and still is a cemetry

[@PCar-ff2vh]

Thanks for sharing this interesting video ❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@AnthonyRamsay-tg8xg]

They didn't have to do that....send them back if they were not selected.

[@EliteJamaica]

Real talk

[@veronawint3179]

Good job love the true history. Learn something new about my jamaica.

[@franceswallace3887]

Did not know that,❤

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Stay blessed

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ELITE THX FOR THE HISTORY..

[@blessedchildofgod9112]

thank you

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Awesome work, very informative and interesting topic. Your Channel is great 👍

[@EliteJamaica]

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Great job Elite. Excellently done. Keep up the work. Blessings !!

[@selvynwilliams2160]

Thanks brother you are doing a great job by letting the remnant that's alive now that colonizers never have any love

[@JAESAYS876]

Another solid video bro

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings Family, Thanks for watching

[@KattahB]

From dust we come to dust we go.!

[@joylinson9607]

Its the first that I am hearing this.

[@sheronjohnson2041]

Wow love this first im knowing this💯💯💯🙏

[@calligraphy4851]

3:20 Sorry Alex but Queen Victoria died in Jan 1901. Her great grandson, George VI became King on December 11, 1936 after is brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated. Edward was King from Jan 1936 to December 1936 but his coronation never happened because a one bag a tings. King George VI, Edward's brother, was coronated on May 12, 1937

[@EliteJamaica]

That was a mistake, it was suppose to be king george

[@calligraphy4851]

@@EliteJamaica ok. Bless up

[@EliteJamaica]

@calligraphy4851 bless and thanks for pointing that out

[@carolcox2840]

Re-.George v1..there is a building at the intersection of maxfield and Spanish twn rd near to .majestic. cinema with his name built in 1937

[@gillprescod4141]

Nice video

[@user-yh9zm3mg2j]

I believe u caz near the trsin statiin downtown on the side walk I saw two old headstones from the 1800

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for that info, can you tell me when you saw these?

[@donettahuggins2635]

I was just here! WOW did not know that!Such beautiful spirited ppl and a beautiful time I HAD! OMGORSH. “Vengeance is mine, I will repay saith the Lord”(Romans 12:19)

[@bevhall2833]

What a great story.the government should make parts of the markets a m gardens so that the nations can visits Also these things should be taught in our schools that our history's .thank you for this l love history .

[@EliteJamaica]

Thank you for watching

[@telltraceyyoursecret4529]

Stop calling African “slaves” please say “ENSLAVED” our pple were not slave before they were taken into slavery

[@onestopculturaltoursja]

Thank you for sharing this information with us. I have been living in JA for over 4 years. I have family here and am a tour guide operating in Kingston. This information has never been conveyed to me, and i will do some additional research as I enjoy learning about our history and culture. I often draw on information/events put on by the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) and moreso, by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (memory bank) I'd love to link up with you in Kingston. Whenever convenient, to explore other hidden gems of information. Thank you again 🇯🇲

[@KingGood66]

Really Great Work Sir.

[@oliverose1810]

Very interesting

[@normanbrown9225]

THE THREE GREATEST THINGS TO KNOW IS; OUR HISTORY, KNOW THY SELF And TO THYNE OWN SELF BE TRUE❤

[@chrisper7527]

So, the white British colonial slave masters, desecrated the remains of these slaves by building infrastructure on top of the ancestors’ remains. We are not surprised. Maybe Jamaicans need to ask Marky British what he thinks about reparations for this dastardly deed. As a consolation, the government must now have a monument erected to commemorate and show respect to the remains of these unknown heroes for their suffering.🇯🇲🇺🇸

[@anngore3842]

Typical dem evil monsters 👻 have tried so hard to hide the truth from us. So much has been hidden.

[@byronshepherd222]

I didn't know anything about this and I study history. But thanks for the info.

[@marclodge2058]

Interesting

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@nish_preps7562]

Thank you

[@markstonecoldhudson]

Great work my brother , u teach me something very important

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings family

[@khalbailey941]

Tivoli is a grave yard too, that is why those places act up violently so sometimes!

[@DavidJohnson-kq3lt]

I never know about this until today. No wonder so many duppy deh a Kingston..and de a market.so I guess when you go a Cornation market a DUPPY u a buy fram

[@peterdawes9711]

The best video I've seen from you, Alex.... Very well researched!

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@clayongunzelle9555]

Downtown is spooky place so I'm not surprised

[@dubsounds]

Bwaai, stop tell anansi story. Yuh t'ink me fraid a duppy? Choh! Good content Sir.

[@dubsounds]

As a Nigerian, my advice is this: While in the Market, be on your best behaviour, and respect one another. The last thing you'd want to contend with is a....How do you Jamaicans say? ahh, ...umm....duppy? from Benin, Ghana, and God forbid Nigeria. In fact, as we speak, I'm working up a little Shango (Santeria, Obeah, vudu, Guzu. Call it whatever the hell you want) on unuh facey Jamaicans. Suh unuh bettah behave unuh self. And do not nyam all the food. Leave some for the ancestors.

[@jenniferthompson1972]

Johnathan grant high school also build on cemetery

[@aundreamellado6112]

Grass yard was on spanish town Rd that area later becomes tiverley

[@EliteJamaica]

The whole market was called grass yard, tivolli is different and was known as dungle

[@user-yv9rj1sq5m]

MY PARENT TOLD US BUFF BAY WAS A BURYING GROUND BACK IN THE DAYS FOR WHO I DONT KNOW

[@sheronrobinson1544]

Coronation market build on a ancestor cemetry, mayb that is why it was burn down some years ago if my memory serves me correct, WOW 😮

[@AnnetteDacosta]

Alex good morning I think you could visit the market one if these days and ask the vendors there if they noticed anything strange there in the market because some of these vendors sleep at the market so you could get their feed back from them the vendors

[@marciabrandon2423]

Hmmm dem.get taught!😮

[@annmckenzie1745]

Thanks Alex for this information. I have bern saying they need to rewrite the history of Jamaica. A lot have been hidden. But as my grandmother used to say ..what is hidden from the wise and prudent will be revealed to the babes and suckling. Thanks again Alex..

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings

[@menahj80]

This is so interesting... Can you please tell where i can find out more info

[@EliteJamaica]

The Jamaica archives, or the UK library

[@user-ql3fo5jq2s]

The african burial ground of nyc wall st.was unearthed during building a new skyscraper, we went there asap& stopped ✋️ the desecration of our ancestors, many were from jamaican & other caricom nations diaspora transatlantic slavetrade, we fought that battle & won,now known as african burial ground museum 👏

[@robertjohnson5370]

Deep Knowledge and thank you for this presentation What is the History relative to the so called General Penitentiary May these Alkebulan Ancestors rest in Power Ase

[@raskdajah1159]

Very interesting videos. Goes to show they have no respect for black people. Building a market on top of my ancestors and hiding it in plain sight doesn't get more disrespectful than that. Not to mention why it was giving the name "Coronation Market". Good research. 👍🏽

[@genokunkupa3722]

Thanks for U''r hard work in researching U'r info. I'm one of u'r subscriber & appreciates such info immensely. However,, on this occasion, there is a mistake, as Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838. Thanks nonetheless. Keep up the work. .

[@user-nx7ug4ve7p]

Thats why back in the days certain time no bus would pick up on orange.you had to go pass north street up top are meet the bus on king street

[@ErrollBrown-ol3oi]

Grass yard was also noted for the sale of fire wood, coal and grass.

[@Shes_Royal777]

So crazy why.

[@pamelarose9784]

I used to go to Coranation Market with my grandmother back in the 1970ties. I hope i recall everything she told me. Coranation market, grass yard, and chigga foot market were on burial ground. Every time i go Jamaica, i go down there especially on Thursday mornings. Most of the time i go papine market which is a few minutes from where i stay. I grew up on Melrose ave and my grandmother and all 4 of us grandchildren would take the 52 or it was 54 JOS bus at 5:30 am to go market. Two of us grandchildren holding on to each side of her skirt. My grandmother was strong, had patience and tried to pass on whatever information she heard growing up.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for your feedback back and thanks for watching

[@dubsounds]

Yess maam. My granny travelled from Guy's Hill to Chigga foot market, back in late 60's /70's. Tell me sup'm. Did you granny keep her money knotted in a kerchief and stuffed in her bosom?

[@iotahutchinson1482]

@@dubsounds or the in the end of her tyehead

[@KattahB]

Have you done anything on our Constitution yet? Would love your video on such! Keep up the great work!

[@EliteJamaica]

No I have not but I have been going through the constitution to get a better understanding of it. Really complicated and confusing tho

[@AlwinChambers]

1938 king George 6th was king not Victoria

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for that, it was a mistake as I pointed out In the comment above

[@Truthseeker491]

The Government of Jamaica has no interest for us to know our history, archives of our history are kept secret and will not be taught in the schools but information technology will bring our past history to light. Luke 12:2-3.read.

[@iotahutchinson1482]

I remember some years ago the venders from that market used to complain about hearing noise coming from underground now i know it was the africans duppy having there market days.🇯🇲😀

[@EliteJamaica]

Lol, are you serious?

[@iotahutchinson1482]

@@EliteJamaica it is not so long ago and they were saying it is the men from the nearby community.

[@omarwilliams6729]

Y'all are new to this! In Southern States most times you see Lakes they're man-made! And guess what? They all had Black Communities buried beneath them! YES it is real!

[@jamjelliful]

While history is appreciated and adds knowledge please be guided by the word of God that clearly tells us the dead knows nothing.. there is absolutely nothing good to come from the living interacting with the dead so this ritual of leaving food for spirits/ancestors is not an act we should embrace. Beware that acts like this and many other wickedness is the very reason judgement is about to fall in this land.

[@jacquelineforde3251]

jamjellifull, I am not understanding your comment. This is just information he is sharing. The average person don’t leave food for the Ancestors. I know I personally don’t leave food for my Ancestors.

[@OloRishaCreole504]

Leaving food for the ancestors has been going on for centuries and will continue, so please leave your Abraham cult at the door..people will continue to do what they want..they grown

[@vilmabeckford1483]

I didn't know that story about coronation market. When they were refurbishing Redemption Ground market in the Fifties it was said they found some coffins there

[@EliteJamaica]

Thats interesting, I have to look into that

[@berthonpowell7366]

Survey Maps tell their stories

[@senorbrown8684]

Goodmorning i dont not remember this history with 72yrs my mother sells.in another market in jamaica the things she sells she buys in curnation market we went with her to buy some time we were nine kids have to follow her to take the load Never see or heard any strange thing enterning the market 5 am in the morning and some time late at about 7 o 8 pm never learn in school about that where did you get your information let us know that we can read for our self ( PLEASE) thank you

[@evlynmckenzie396]

We know it was acementary

[@WilleanHill-ip5lf]

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