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Jamaicans of African ancestry are citizens of Jamaica whose ancestry lies in the continent of Africa specifically West Africa and also of Europe and Asia for Jamaicans of mixed African background; usually termed Brown people. Up until the early 1690s Jamaica’s population was relatively equally mixed between White Black and Brown (mixed) people. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula after having been taken from West Africa by the Spanish and the Portuguese.
