This era sees the wholesale introduction of…

This era sees the wholesale introduction of a slavery-based plantation economy in Jamaica, which, under English rule, has become a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan, who raids up and down the Spanish Main with buccaneers from all over the Caribbean.

Large buccaneer attacks on Spanish settlements, secretly condoned by the English authorities, will continue till the end of the century, gradually laying waste to the entire region.

Jamaica’s population in 1660 is about forty-five hundred whites and some fifteen hundred blacks.