Editing Cayman Islands (section)

=== 19th century ===
The first census taken in the islands, in 1802, showed the population on Grand Cayman to be 933, with 545 of those inhabitants being slaves.<ref name="History of the Cayman Islands" /> Slavery was abolished in the Cayman Islands in 1833, following the passing of the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833|Slavery Abolition Act]] by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]]. At the time of abolition, there were over 950 slaves of African ancestry, owned by 116 families.<ref>{{citation |title=The Cayman Islands Annual Report 1988 |location=Cayman Islands |date=1988 |page=127}}</ref><ref name="History of Cayman Islands" />

On 22 June 1863, the Cayman Islands was officially declared and administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica.<ref>{{cite book |title=Colonies in Conflict: The History of the British Overseas Territories |first=Charles |last=Cawley}}{{page needed|date=September 2022}}</ref> The islands continued to be governed as part of the [[Colony of Jamaica (1655–1962)|Colony of Jamaica]] until 1962, when they became a separate [[Crown colony]], after Jamaica became an independent [[Commonwealth realm]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Graeme R. |date=2010 |title=Crime and Punishment Around the World: Africa and the Middle East |page=82 |publisher=Abc-Clio, LLC |isbn=978-0-313-35133-4}}.</ref><ref name="britannica.com"/>

[[File:Heroes Square of George Town.jpg|thumb|right|The Heroes Square in the center of George Town, which commemorates the Cayman Islands' war dead. The Legislative Assembly building is at the left.]]