Imagine an alternative history for America, where slaves brought from Africa escaped the plantations, built strongholds and villages in the mountains, sowed terror among slaveholders through periodic raids, lived with, learned from, and fought alongside Native Americans, and created safe havens and powerful narratives of resistance for victims of the slave culture. Imagine those rebels fighting so bravely, so determinedly, that they defeated armies sent against them, and forced the American government to negotiate a truce, ceding them freedom and land ownership. Imagine those rebels celebrated in schools and on US currency as national heroes, and their descendants contributing as equals to the Constitution and government.
Welcome to Jamaica! The national motto is "Out of many, one people" - E pluribus unum, just like America, but they got there somewhat differently. Both Jamaica and America were British colonies strongly influenced by the importation of slaves from Africa, and plantation culture, but they followed different paths.