Many of the enslaved Africans were branded with the initials ‘DY’, standing for Duke of York. They were shipped to Barbados and other Caribbean islands to work on the new sugar plantations, as well as further north to England’s American colonies.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
August 23, 2020
JAMAICA KINCAID
After attending primary school during the British colonial era, Jamaica left the island and migrated to New York, leaving her birth name behind her.