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| group = Jamaican Creoles<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|first1=Richard |last1=Allsopp |publisher=UWI Press|year=1996 |page=176-177|isbn=978-976-640-145-0}}</ref>
| regions = Throughout [[Jamaica]]
| pop = 76.3% of [[Jamaica]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uwi.edu/jamaica.php#:~:text=Population:2,824,913+(2024+est.,%25+Chinese+and+0.8%25+Other.&text=History:+When+Christopher+Columbus+first,by+Arawak+(Taino)+Indians|title=Jamaica | The University of the West Indies|website=www.uwi.edu}}</ref>
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'''Afro-Jamaicans''', or '''Jamaican Creoles''',<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|first1=Richard |last1=Allsopp |publisher=UWI Press|year=1996 |page=176-177|isbn=978-976-640-145-0}}</ref> are [[Jamaicans]] of predominantly [[Afro-Caribbean people|Caribbean Creole]] descent. They represent the largest [[ethnicity|ethnic]] group in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jamaica Population 2021 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/jamaica-population|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-20|website=World Population Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222015634/http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/jamaica-population/ |archive-date=2013-12-22 }}</ref>
The [[ethnogenesis]] of the Jamaican Creole people Stems from the [[Atlantic slave trade]] of the 16th century, when abducted Africans were transported to Jamaica and other parts of the Americas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Castilla |first=Julian de |date=1924 |title=The English conquest of Jamaica |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/camden-third-series/article/abs/english-conquest-of-jamaica-an-account-of-what-happened-in-the-island-of-jamaica-from-may-20-of-the-year-1655-when-the-english-laid-seige-to-it-up-to-july-3-of-the-year-1656-by-captain-julian-de-castilla/128E8F78849E09C3784D41BE07B88CD4 |journal=Camden |series=Third Series |volume=34 |pages=32 |doi=10.1017/S2042171000006932}}</ref> During the period of British rule, captives brought to Jamaica by European slave traders were primarily [[Coromantee|Cromanty]], some of whom ran away and joined with [[Jamaican Maroons]] and even took over as leaders.<ref name="auto">{{cite book|title=History of Jamaica, From Its Discovery To The Year 1872|first= William James |last=Gardner |publisher=Appleton & Company |page=74 |year=1909 |isbn=978-0415760997}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Jamaican English|first1=Robert B. Le Page |last1=Frederic G. Cassidy.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1980 |page=131|isbn=978-0-521-11840-8}}</ref>
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