The document summarizes the history of immigration from Africa to Jamaica. It discusses how: 1) Africans were brought as slaves to Jamaica as a British colony to work on sugar plantations, fueling Jamaica's economy in the 18th-19th centuries. 2) After emancipation in the 19th century, freed black slaves faced ongoing oppression, leading some to flee to the mountains and wage a 76-year guerrilla war against British rule. 3) The song discussed was written by Bob Marley and discusses the mental strength and hope for freedom of former slaves and their descendants in Jamaica.

1. A Song about Immigration from Africa to
Jamaica.

2.  Jamaica was a colony of Great Britain. People
of Africa were brought to their colonies to
''serve'' and populate
The African did not want to go to Central
America islands.

3. …of British rule, Jamaica became the largest
sugar exporter in the world, producing 77,000
tons per year, between 1820 and 1824. This
productivity would never have been achieved
without the slave labor brought from Africa.

4.  19th Century: In the early nineteenth century,
the high dependency of the British Empire of
slavery made the African-American
population 20 times larger than the white
population. Black people constantly provoked
threatening situations of conflicts and
revolution.

5.  After the liberation of black slaves, they began
to flee to the mountains, resulting in a
guerrilla war that lasted 76 years. This made
the English crown spend over £ 250,000.
The French Revolution and the emergence of
the conflict that gave rise to the rebellion in
Haiti, spread throughout the islands and, in
1789, the British feared that would cause
slaves to rebel.

6. So, in 1795 the second guerrilla warfare
began inspired by the example of freedom of
Haitians.
Following those rebellions, in 1953 and 1957
constitutional progress was made, as a fully
autonomous local government.

7.  In this song, the author wrote about the
history of his mother when she was taken
from Africa as a slave. Marley sang to give
strength to his countrymen to escape from
mental slavery because “None but ourselves
can free our minds.”

8.  Bob Marley sent messages to his countrymen
and slaves of the world. One of his stanzas
says:
 Even through all the pain and suffering,
people should recover with the strength of
God and the hope for a new future. A different
future of freedom.

9.  Marley insisted on singing freedom songs and
being heard because that was his way of
expressing people have to be free.

10.  Bob Marley wants to say that body or mental
slaves should psych up to be strong and
escape from the slavery. He challenges
people to think critically and stop taking as
natural or inevitable events or situations that
are products of human acts.

11.  Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
sold I to the merchant ships,
minutes after they took I
from the bottomless pit.
but my hand was made strong
by the 'and of the almighty.
we forward in this generation
triumphantly.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all I ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs.
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them can stop the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look? ooh!
some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfill de book.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all I ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs;
redemption songs.

12.  ---
/guitar break/
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emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our mind.
have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them can stop the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look?
yes, some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfill the book.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom?
'cause all I ever had:
redemption songs
all i ever had:
redemption songs:
these songs of freedom,
songs of freedom.

13.  Immigration has been very common during history. Through the
centuries, many people have moved from one country into
another for different reasons. The most usual reasons why
people leave their country are political, social, economic and
cultural. For example in the 20th Century a lot of people from
Europe had to move from their countries to escape from the two
big world wars. In fact, many people came to Argentina, from
Italy, Spain and other countries. Moreover, most of us descend
from these immigrants who came to our country. In our opinion
immigration is a sad solution some people choose when they
cannot live free in their countries. That is the reason why we
think it should not exist. People should be free and have the
possibility to live in their own culture without any social or
political problem. In fact, in the song we have chosen, played by
Bob Marley, his mother is taken to Jamaica to live and work as a
slave.

14.  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica
 http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=864
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 http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?fotos=24
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15.  Vaira, Nicolás
 Carbone, Mariano
 D’Andrea, Gianluca
 Nordhein, Agustín