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teachers brought from Jamaica. Until 1949 Costa Rica had segregation laws where Black people lived exclusively in the Caribbean Province of Puerto Limón. By 2011 Afro–Costa Ricans were spread in all 7 Costa Rican provinces: 32% of them in San José, 16% in Alajuela, 15% in Limón, 10% in Heredia and 8% in Cartago and Guanacaste. Today, Afro–Costa Rican people are part of different disciplines and fields in Costa Rica.
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competitiveness . To remedy this situation, in 1871 a railway and a port on the Atlantic Coast were constructed. Because of the scarcity of local labor, workers were imported from Italy, China, and the Caribbean and Central America. This coincided with an employment crisis in Jamaica that caused an exodus to neighboring countries. So on December 20, 1872, the
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Usually these workers lived on the plantations and had little knowledge of Costa Rica beyond their immediate environment. The contact was minimal because the Costa Rican banana plantations were in foreign hands. They did not speak Spanish and retained Jamaican customs. They had their own schools with
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Towards the second half of the 19th century, coffee became the main export of Costa Rica. The crops were transported from the Pacific Coast, by an inaccessible jungle terrain of the Atlantic Coast. To be taken to Europe, they had to turn back to South America, which increased the cost and removed
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migrant workers (mostly from Jamaica). They represent the largest group of Jamaicans living outside of Jamaica's Anglophone dominated diaspora. However, not all Black Costa Ricans are descended from these groups, as some are directly descended from colonial-era enslaved Africans imported to Costa
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Many Jamaicans intended to return home, but most remained in the province of Limón on the Caribbean Coast. In 1890 the railways suffered a financial crisis, forcing many workers to sustain themselves by working in agriculture. This in turn saw the laborers establishing relationships and cultural
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Since 1850, fishermen of Afro-Caribbean origin began to settle in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, especially from Panama and the West Indies. They stayed in temporary camps during fishing seasons, from March to September, to plant coconuts, cassava, and yams, which were then harvested the
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However, the following century witnessed a gradual lessening of the differences between Black people and their white owners. As whites took Black women as their concubines, they freed the children that were born from this union. The same thing started to happen with the
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with 123 workers to work on the railroad. From this moment, the number of Jamaican workers in Limon increased rapidly and the next year already saw over 1,000 Jamaican workers in the port.
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Eight percent of the population is Afro–Costa Rican (black or mulatto), compared to 2.4 percent who are Amerindian and 83 percent who are of European heritage (including
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The largest Costa Rican Black community is from the Caribbean, which today constitutes the majority of the Costa Rican Black population. Costa Rica has the largest
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exchanges with native populations of these areas. Later, the Jamaican workers began working for the banana industry, whose production grew to its peak in 1907.
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following season. Since 1828, some of these fishermen began to settle in Costa Rica permanently with their families.
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came with the Spanish conquistadors. Slave trade was common in all the countries conquered by
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Mujeres Esclavas en la Costa Rica del Siglo XVIII: Estrategias Frente a la Esclavitud
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and Panama and its development as a nation is witness to this contribution.
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Rica by the Spanish. This latter group, however, is more likely to be
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and were denied Costa Rican citizenship and thus the right to vote.
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América latina en movimiento. La comunidad negra en Costa Rica
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The first recorded arrival of people of African descent in
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Index

Afro-Costa Ricans

Calypso
Puerto Limón
Bribrí
Talamanca
Puerto Limon
San Jose
Alajuela
Heredia
Spanish
English creole
Roman Catholicism
Baptists
Agnosticism
Christianism
Afro-Caribbean
Black Latin Americans
Costa Ricans
African
Mulattoes
Blacks
Amerindians
Asians
Afro-Caribbean
mulatto
Costa Rica
Spain
Gambia
Mandingas

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