KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – Jamaica has revived a reparations commission to research slavery’s social and economic impact and examine whether the predominantly black Caribbean island should seek ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luxury cruise liners, like this docked at Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice from the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is preparing to abolish a slavery-era law allowing flogging and whipping as means of punishing prisoners, the Caribbean country’s justice ministry said Thursday. Trump ...

While Americans celebrate Juneteenth and Independence Day separately, Jamaicans have a week-long “Emancipendence” celebration every August to commemorate slavery’s abolition in 1834 and national ...

Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on spelling and dating -- Introduction -- England's Jewish merchants and the slave trade -- Jews and slaves in seventeenth-century Barbados and ...

Jamaican officials are petitioning Britain to compensate them 7.6 billion pounds (around $10.5 billion USD) as reparations for the European country’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, Reuters ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were received by a fanfare of support and waving crowds on their recent visit to Jamaica, a photo opportunity that completely backfired on one awkward occasion. More ...