Name - Republic of Jamaica (English)

Continent - Americas

Capital - Kingston

Head of state - Chief Magistrate -----

Head of government - Prime Minister -------

Legislature - Congress

President of the Congress -

Judiciary - High Court

President of the High Court -

Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic ministerial confidential constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code

Demonym - Jamaican

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-Kingston

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Time zone -

Currency - Jamaican dollar

Language - English

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-with British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), inspires movement across Jamaica

-a slave rebellion emerges

-when it hits it causes panic in Jamaican planter class

-especially since new regime is self-evidently antislavery

-big gigantic threat, though sufficiently united white elite and mulattoes not going on board

-fearing British conquest or new slave revolt, House of Assembly decides to call American aid

-this guy ) after having been court marshalled in 1829 and resigning leads expedition to aid it in 1830

-succeeds in this goal esp. since British navy way weaker now and held up in many things

-with that Jamaica becomes independent and declares itself a republic

-strongly allied with the United States of America, specifically the South

-attempts to admit it as a state repeatedly refused by American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican)

-who doesn't want to compromise good relations with British

-and does not want to expand antislavery backlash

-but does guard its sovereignty just in case British regime falls

-and then Missouri crisis makes it literally unthinkable

-slave trade between US and Jamaica increases

-and becomes hub of the trans-Caribbean slave trade

-American Presidents > 1853-1861 Robert F. Stockton (People's) tries to annex Jamaica

-fails badly to get it past Congress

-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76) becomes part of the Richmond Government

-admitted by its senate

-with defeat Richmond Government flees to Jamaica

-exile administration only defeated in Antillean War (1880-4)

-after that Jamaica becomes an independent mulatto-led state