Jamaica

History

Before immigration and colonization began, Jamaica had it's own culture among the Arawak[1] people, but do to Spaniard immigration and the Trans-Atlantic slave-trade, these people disappeared or went into hiding.

When Jamaica started to become colonized and populated with sugar plantations and slaves, some of the slaves who arrived during the Trans-Atlantic trade were also wizards, and brought along their cultures and traditions with them, however they did not become permanent until Amadi Afamdi.

He was a pureblood and a metamorph, who killed and replaced the owner of the sugar plantation he had been shipped to, and then used the plantation, magic, and an order of community oaths and systems to sustain a society of wizards caught up in the slave trade. He bought, traded (muggles for wizards,) and shipped all kinds of wizards into the community he created and propagated breeding and traditions until the Slave Trade was finally abolished.

Even though the Slave Trade was abolished, there were still very sour feelings towards outsiders, and the wizards in Amadi's community grew to only trust themselves. There was also a clash of religions, associated with witchcraft, that once again endangered the discovery of the wizarding community, resulting in more stringent oaths and guidelines. [2]

Finally, slavery was abolished in the 1900's, and the wizards no longer had to sustain a makeshift community hidden on the guise of a slave plantation. The plantation was sold and the wizards established themselves in the Cockpit[3][4] with some assistance of the magical Maroon[5] refugees.

Asians later began to immigrant into Jamaica as well, mostly Indians and Chinese, and are commonly seen groups involved in the culture.

Families

The Afamdi-Steeles

Family: The Foleys

Distant Relations: The Ó Móráins, The Knights, The Snarks, The Amhersts, The d'Aubignes, The Darrions, and The Osterdikes

Culture

Wizard & Muggle Relations

The wizards in Jamaica are very suspicious about outsiders, but have a more deep-seated mistrust with muggles. Due to their civil rights history and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, they have little to no tolerance of muggles and believe that their lack of magic has made them inherently greedy, lazy, and corrupted about them. The Jamaicans are a tight-knit community, bound by a series of magical oaths, to keep order, and they do not have, and often reject the establishment of, an official Ministry. This is usually because those trying to establish a Ministry hold the same basic colonization views or over-ambitious political views Jamaicans unanimously oppose.

In contrast, muggleborns and halfbloods are looked highly open as being able to overcome these tendencies, but tolerance of them varies depending on purity beliefs, with those of more purer descent having much higher expectations of them. Since these children may end up with parents ignorant about the wizarding world. Patrols of specially trained crups were formed for the purpose of finding and guiding magical children, especially when maturing magically, and they are stationed throughout major cities, ports, and other places in Jamaica, and released and cared for as wild animals or strays. There are also farms of crups in the wild for this very purpose. This method is preferred to putting tracers on people or magic in an attempt to avoid the insecurity issues of being monitored without their consent.

Pure and strong breeding is strived for, even though they show a great tolerance or acceptance for halfbloods and muggleborns. But purebloods breed believing that it is a responsibility and their duty to do so, but arranged marriages are rare, as most Jamaicans hold a series of matches for suitors, sometimes involving multiple suitors or family members, to earn respect and prove a person's worth before they can marry.

It is also believed that only purebloods can responsibly be capable of making a judgment between what is viewed as good and bad, without becoming tainted by power, and are viewed as being fair, although, after making a series of unsettling decisions, their power can be questioned, and they may lose respect among the community.

Creatures

List

Indigenous		Invasive
	X
Flobberworm		Horklump
	XX
Fairy		Grindylow
Ghoul
Gnome
Mooncalf
	XXX
Dugbog		Lolabug
Clabbert		Hippogriff
Nogtail		Streeler
Knarl		Kneazle
Salamander		Crup
Sea Serpent		American Crocodile (Morph)
	XXXX
Merpeople		Erumpent
Re'em		Griffin
		Tebo
	XXXXX
Blitz Raider		Peruvian Vipertooth
Lethifold

Breeding

Due to Voodoo families' interests in breeding creatures, it has become a societal norm to practice breeding as a job or a hobby. The wide-interest and use of methods result in a lot of strange creatures to be available in the black market, and any of the ones that are particularly ridiculous or could harm the environment are usually weeded out via Voodoo bokors.[6]