Editing Belize (section)

====Belizean Creoles====
{{Main|Belizean Creole people|Baymen}}
Belizean Creoles are primarily [[mixed-race]]d descendants of [[African slave trade|West and Central Africans]] who were brought to the [[British Honduras]] (modern Belize along the [[Bay of Honduras]]) as well as the [[English people|English]] and [[Scottish people|Scottish]] log cutters, known as the [[Baymen]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Belize-Guatemala Territorial Issue – Chapter 1|url=http://www.belizenet.com/bzeguat/intro.html|access-date=2023-02-04|website=www.belizenet.com|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801161521/http://www.belizenet.com/bzeguat/intro.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="jstor.org">{{Cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Melissa A.|date=2003|title=The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985885|journal=Environmental History|volume=8|issue=4|pages=598–617|doi=10.2307/3985885|jstor=3985885|bibcode=2003EnvH....8..598J |s2cid=144161630|issn=1084-5453|access-date=21 November 2022|archive-date=21 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121225247/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985885|url-status=live}}</ref>  Over the years they have also intermarried with [[Miskito people|Miskito]] from [[Nicaragua]], [[Jamaicans]] and other [[Caribbean people]], [[Hispanic Belizean|Mestizo]]s, [[White Caribbeans|Europeans]], [[Garifuna]]s, [[Maya people|Maya]], etc. The majority of Creoles trace their ancestry to several of the aforementioned groups. The creole and African slaves came to British Honduras (modern day Belize) from Jamaica, as Jamaica was the closest British colony administering British Honduras at the time and it was the slave ships' final destination. It is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations.

Belize town was the epicentre of the colony and many slaves ended up in the logwood and timber industry. Women and children stayed doing domestic and farm work. Slaves in Belize were more free to travel and roam around the colony due to their work. This caused the rapid integration of African slaves from different tribes and parts of Africa to mingle with the free coloureds and sons and daughters of slave owners with slaves.

Some predominant coloured or light-skinned creole communities were in the Belize river valley namely Crooked Tree, Isabela Bank, Bermudian Landings and Lemonal among others. Most of them have light or blue eyes and light skin. Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City, the creoles in the Belize river valley area had a more lighter complexion and more visible European traits.

The Belizean Creole along with Africans and Garifuna make up the Afro-Belizean population; about 30% of the population. The Creoles have had a great impact in Belizean history and politics. They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of the British West Indies Battalion in world war one and world war two, and the Negro movement for equal rights. They were one of the first group of people to advocate for and get a higher education in Jamaica and the UK in which after returning to Belize, the educated scholars rallied and started the movement for adult suffrage, self-government and independence.  All of the important historical events started in Belize City and most of the first people involved were of creole descent which were the upper and middle class of Belize at the time. Well known Creole Belizeans were Samuel Haynes, Philip Goldson, Dean Barrow, Dame Minita Gordon, Cleopatra White, Cordel Hyde and Patrick Faber among others.

The Creole were the biggest ethnic group in Belize until the 1980s due to mass migration of Afro Belizeans to the United States, United Kingdom and West Indies from the 1960s to 1970s and the mass immigration of Central American refugees to Belize. Due to the Central American War, and political instability, the country's demographics changed forever.