It was the year 1494, when the world as we know it today did not exist. far from the commercial mecca of Europe and even further from civilization was a little piece of land surrounded completely by water. Inhabited at that time by a group of primitive dwellers whose fore parents had settled there years before and so it was by default the only home they knew. there they lived peaceful, unmolested, untried and untroubled, if ever in these ancient times a definition of heaven on earth was needed then one in almost total accuracy could be given by these people, but as the biblical account of the interruption in heaven (Rev 12:7), so paradise for these people were interrupted, "...and there was no longer peace in Jamaica, Christopher Columbus and his men came, and disrupted the lives of the Arawak natives, and they died...'Before too long the Spanish settled in jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872. In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670. These were in truth the first Jamaicans... So here concertized in the walls of history is the first block of the structure Jamaica.
(PLEASE CONTINUE TO VIEW MY BLOGS TO SEE THE HISTORY OF JAMAICA BEING TRACES IN PARAGRAPHS)
Coming soon: "The other Jamaicans; Slavery to emancipation"