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2. List of plantations in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption. Both industries used the forced labour of enslaved ...

3. Rose Hall, Montego Bay - Wikipedia

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   Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored. The museum showcases the slave history of the ...

4. International Organization for Migration - Wikipedia

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   US$ 2.5 billion. Staff (2021) 17,761. Website. www.iom.int. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers. The ...

5. Indo-Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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   Gradually workers left the plantations for Kingston and took jobs that better utilized their existing and newly learned skills. The Indian community adopted English as their first language and became jewellers, fishermen, barbers, and shopkeepers.

6. William Atherton (plantation owner) - Wikipedia

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   William Atherton (plantation owner) William Atherton (31 May 1742 – 30 June 1803), was a merchant and wealthy landowner from Lancashire, England, who operated and co-owned sugar plantations in the former Colony of Jamaica. He was a slave owner, as well as an importer of slaves from Africa. [1]

7. Constant Spring, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   Constant Spring plantation. Constant Spring plantation was one of the Regimental Plantations. It was developed by Lt.-Colonel Henry Archibold during the military occupation following the English invasion of Jamaica. Commander William Brayne described it as "one of the best plantations in the island". [1]: 136.

8. Saint Joseph's Teachers' College - Wikipedia

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   St. Joseph's Teachers' College is a Roman Catholic teacher training college in Kingston, Jamaica. It was founded in 1897 by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church in Jamaica . The college campus contains dormitories to accommodate students from more distant areas. Over the years, the institution has ...

9. Southfield, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   Southfield was originally the site of a plantation. This, together with its Great House was well established by 1796 when Andrew Bromfield was listed as the proprietor with 80 African slaves. [9] By 1922 this had been renamed Southfield Pen. [10] In 1995, the Great House featured in a program shown on Jamaican National Television. [9]