Scottish Jamaicans
Jamaicans of Scottish descent
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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.[citation needed]
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.
History
People of Scottish Jamaican descent
- Alison Hammond, British TV celebrity
- Akala, British rapper and poet
- Harry Belafonte, American musician
- William Davidson, radical[7]
- 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[8][9]
- Mary Seacole, nurse during the Crimean War; her father was a Scottish soldier
- Gil Heron, Jamaican football player
- Gil Scott-Heron, American soul and jazz poet
- Robert Wedderburn, radical and abolitionist[10]
