Channel 5 - Portillo's Empire Journey (2020) Part 2 Jamaica

Michael Portillo tells the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe built the biggest empire the world has ever seen.

Part 2 Jamaica

Michael visits Jamaica, the Caribbean capital of the Empire, heading to Fort Charles where the Empire enlisted the help of pirates to defend the new territory from the Spanish. At the old naval headquarters, Michael learns how the Royal Navy moved in to replace the pirates as Britain struck a deal with Spain to keep her territories. The island needed a new source of wealth, and found it in the triangular trade as slaves were shipped from Africa to work sugar plantations. In Pinnacle, birthplace of the Rastafari movement, Michael learns how Jamaicans were later inspired to create a new religion.

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