Jamaician history lesson:

Jamaica's first inhabitants, the Tainos (also called the Arawaks), were a peaceful people believed to be from South America. (The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawak)

It was the Tainos who met Christopher Columbus when he arrived on Jamaica's shores in 1494. Spanish settlements flourished until the 1600s, During the 1650s the Spanish lost Jamaica to the British, who established large and lucrative sugar plantations.

Slave trade between Africa and Jamaica was finally abolished in 1807 and no additional slaves were to be brought to the island after March 1, 1808. Historically, much of Jamaica's success was based on the work of slaves, which led to a great deal of conflict.

>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/jamaica-history-and-heritage-17561607/