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Today is Emancipation Day in Jamaica, the day African slaves in British colonies received freedom from slavery.

So, here's yet another thread of vintage photos of Jamaica, this one highlights Jamaican joy!

Bob Marley's children: SHARON, STEPHEN, CEDELLA and ZIGGY, Blue Mountain, Jamaica, 1980 © Lindsay Oliver Donald

Source: http://thisisjamaica.tumblr.com 

Source: http://Jamaica-gleaner.com 

Title: Darby and Joan, Jamaica
Photographer: A. Duperly & Sons

Title: Twins, Jamaica
Photographer: Hazard
1904

Saturday night dance at the tavern. Photograph by Wallace Kirkland. Jamaica, December 1952.

Photographer: James Valentine & Sons
1891

Prince Buster and friends dancing the ska on Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, 1964.

Courtesy Steady Rock Productions

1964 “Midnight Masquerader” dance held at the Myrtle Bank Hotel in Kingston.

Title: Jamaican Boys Photographer:Brown & Dawson,
1890

Here's a link to my previous thread of vintage photos of Jamaica. https://twitter.com/Nay_Landell/status/1279118932100681729?s=19

Jamaica shares Emancipation Day with many other Caribbean nations which were former British colonies #OneLove to us all

Also LOVING the animation of the like button when a tweet uses the hashtag #blackjoy

Emancipation is different to independence (independence Day) this is about the freedom of African slaves...there's still much work to be done in the present day, but this is to celebrate our ancestors, our History!