Scottish Jamaicans
Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European, mixed African, and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish European colonisation.
An early influx of Scots came in 1656 when Oliver Cromwell deported 1200 prisoners of war.[1] There was also a later migration at the turn of the 18th century, after the failed Darien colony in Panama.[1] In 1707, Scots gained access to England's preexisting colonies when the Act of Union took place.
People of Scottish Jamaican descent
- Akala, British rapper and poet
- Harry Belafonte, American musician
- William Davidson, radical[2]
- Paul Douglas (Grammy Award-winning drummer and bandleader of Toots and The Maytals)
- Ms. Dynamite, British singer and rapper
- Stewart Faulkner, British retired athlete of Jamaican and Cuban parentage
- Salena Godden, poet and author of Jamaican Irish parentage, descendant of Scottish ancestor Lieutenant General James Robinson (1762–1845) who is buried at Edinburgh University.
- Goldie, British disc jockey of Scottish and Jamaican parentage
- Harry J, record producer
- Lewis Hutchinson, Scottish immigrant to Jamaica; owned a castle; one of Jamaica's first known serial killers
- Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage[3][4]
- Mary Seacole, nurse during the Crimean War; her father was a Scottish soldier
- Gil Heron, Jamaican football player
- Gil Scott-Heron, late American soul and jazz poet
- Robert Wedderburn, radical and abolitionist[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Scottish Genealogy Society - Scottish Jamaica Testaments". 7 March 2003. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "William Davidson". 21 February 1999. Archived from the original on 21 February 1999. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Branigan, Tania (2004-05-12). "Colin Powell claims Scottish coat of arms". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- ^ "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - May 17, 2004". Eogn.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ Chase, Malcolm (2008). "Wedderburn, Robert (1762–1835/6?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47120. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). Retrieved on 17 August 2008.
Further reading
- Besson, Jean Martha Brae's two histories: European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica (The Scottish and Creole planters around Martha Brae - Google books version)
- Karras, Alan L. Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Google books version)
External links
- The Forgotten Diaspora
- Scots ashamed of role in Jamaican Slavery
