EVENT INFORMATION

6
Ougùstùs
1962

Jamaica becomes independent

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📅 6 Ougùstùs 1962 📍 Jamaica

Jamaica became independent after centuries of plantation slavery and British colonial rule. Independence changed sovereignty but did not itself undo land concentration, racial hierarchy, or economic structures shaped by slavery and colonialism.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Norman Manley

Alexander Bustamante

Jamaican independence movement

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Jamaican government

United Kingdom