Jamaica

 The money made from cultivation of  of sugar cane and coffee by African slave labor made Jamaica to be one of the most valuable possessions in the new world for more than 150 years. The colony's slaves, who outnumbered their white masters by a ratio of 20:1 in 1800. By the early nineteenth century, people of African descent greatly outnumbered ethnic Europeans Due to the harshness of the conditions, there were many racial tensions. Jamaica had one of the highest number of slave uprisings of any Caribbean island. After the British Crown abolished slavery in 1834, the Jamaicans began working toward independence.