<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Africans were captured in wars, as retribution for crimes committed, or by abduction, and marched to the coast in "coffles" with their necks yoked to each other . They were placed in trading posts or forts to await the horrifying six - to twelve - week Middle Passage voyage between Africa and the Americas during which they were chained together, underfed, kept in the ship's hold in the thousands (packed more like sardines than humans): Editorial . Those who survived were fattened up and oiled to look healthy prior to being auctioned in public squares to the highest bidders . </P> <P> Based on the phoenix ship records, enslaved Africans mostly came from the Akan people (Twi (Ashanti Akyem, etc), Fante and Bono) followed by Igbo, Yoruba, Kongo, Fon people and Moko people . Akan (then called Coromantee) culture was the dominant African culture in Jamaica . </P> <P> Originally in earlier British colonization, however the island before the 1750s was in fact mainly Akan imported . However, between 1663 and 1700, only six per cent of slave ships to Jamaica listed their origin as the Gold Coast, while between 1700 and 1720 that figure went up to 27 per cent . The number of Akan slaves arriving in Jamaica from Kormantin ports only increased in the early eighteenth century . But due to frequent rebellions from the then known "Coromantee" that often joined the slave rebellion group known as the Jamaican Maroons, other groups were sent to Jamaica . The Akan population was still maintained because they were the preference of British planters in Jamaica because they were "better workers", according to these Planters . According to the Slave Voyages Archives, though the Igbo had the highest importation numbers, they were only imported to Montego Bay and St. Ann's bay ports, while the Gold Coast (mainly Akan) were more dispersed across the island and were a majority imported to 7 of 14 of the island's ports (each parish has one port). </P>

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