Scottish Jamaican

A Scottish Jamaican is a Jamaican with Scottish ancestry. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European and mixed Asian and African 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 1200 prisoners of war were deported by Oliver Cromwell.^[1] There was also a later migration at the turn of the 18th century, after the failed Darien colony in Panama.^[1] In 1707, when the Act of Union took place, Scots gained access to England's preexisting colonies.

People of Scottish Jamaican descent

• William Davidson (conspirator), radical^[2]
• Harry J, record producer
• Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage^[3][4]
• Gil Scott-Heron
• Robert Wedderburn^[5]
• Goldie - Disc jockey

See also

• Scottish place names in Jamaica
• Scottish colonization of the Americas
• Tobacco Lords

External links

• The Forgotten Diaspora
• Scots ashamed of role in Jamaican Slavery

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)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/online/scottish_jamaica_testaments.htm
2. ^ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdavidson.htm
3. ^ Branigan, Tania (2004-05-12). "Colin Powell claims Scottish coat of arms". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/may/12/usa.world. Retrieved 2010-05-23. 
4. ^ http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0420.htm#ColinPowellsScottishAncestry
5. ^ Chase, Malcolm (2008). Wedderburn, Robert (1762–1835/6?). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47120 . Retrieved on 17 August 2008.