sentences:  There are also communities of Jamaican Americans residing in Connecticut, Los Angeles, Tampa, Orlando, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Western New York, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey.After 1838, European colonies in the Caribbean with expanding sugar industries imported large numbers of immigrants to meet their acute labor shortage.Large numbers of Jamaicans were recruited to work in Panama and Costa Rica in the 1850s.