"It didn't take long for the ever expanding British empire to set their sight on Jamaica. In 1655 they captured Jamaica from the Spanish and transformed the Island into one of the largest sugar plantations. British colonization and the sugar trade were the two events that have the most profound effect on the history of Jamaica. Sugar by then was big business. As the sugar plantations expanded, they not only needed more laborers to cultivate, but people to manage the plantations.
To satisfy this demand for labor, more slaves were shipped in from Africa, the Germans were brought in as plantation managers, and the Irish were imported as paid laborers. Very soon, Jamaica was a thriving British colony with heavy trading taking place between the Island and the mother land."
Colonization in this case of Jamaica was horrible form the beginning. They used its people, land and goods for everything it was worth. But they did show the people of Jamaica it's importance in sugar trade, which it still uses today. By the 1930's Jamaica was no longer important to Britian and it slowly gained its independence.

Jamaica was left in a struggle of poverty and low education. A cycle that today they are still struggling to get out of. They are in complete control now but the fact that they depended on a large country like Britian and now they are gone, has left them in a lot of trouble. "After independence, Jamaica slowly shifted it's dependence on sugar and agriculture to that of bauxite and tourism." This semester I have been reading text from Jamaica Kincaid and she has had some really intresting thoughts on the effects of being colonized, like the fact that the country that is being colonized loses their identiy to a certain degree. And not only that, if the country that is in control gives harsh rule, it can really do damage. Like in some places you werent even aloud to learn your native language, you had to learn English and pledge to the British flag.