For many people today the thought of coming to Jamaica brings one word to the lips; paradise. when one thinks of the sunny beaches with the white sandy shores acting as a stripe to the never ending blue waters.
Then on to the miles of nylon like smooth roads and the myriad of dishes and cuisines which continually seduce even the most unsuspecting pallates. All of this coupled with other facts make Jamaica the place to be in 2014,
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but follow me back to some 200 years ago, when the top source of income for the British West Indies was the trade of black Africans know as the trans Atlantic slave trade. Many primitive young Africans would be abducted in the most violent ways from the village and put on a slave ship to the Americas where they would spend the remnants of their days in bitter slavery.
WHAT IS THE REACTIONS OF PRESENT DAY JAMAICANS TO SLAVERY? PLEASE SHARE YOUR ANSWERS?
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