Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom write by Kathleen E. A. Monteith. This book was released on 2002. Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.
Jamaica in 1850; Or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony
Jamaica in 1850; Or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica in 1850; Or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony write by John Bigelow. This book was released on 1851. Jamaica in 1850; Or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Almost Home
Almost Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Almost Home write by Ruma Chopra. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Almost Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
Agency of the Enslaved
Agency of the Enslaved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agency of the Enslaved write by Daive A. Dunkley. This book was released on 2013. Agency of the Enslaved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley argues the point that the preconception that out of slavery came freedom has discouraged scholars from fully exploring the importance of the agency displayed by enslaved people. This study examines those struggles and argues that these formed the real basis of the culture of freedom in the Atlantic societies. These struggles were not for freedom, but for the acknowledgment of the freedom that enslaved people knew was already theirs. Agency of the Enslaved reveals several major incidents in which the enslaved in Jamaica--a country Dunkley uses as a case study with wider applicability to the Atlantic world--demonstrated that they viewed slavery as an immoral, illegal, unnecessary, temporary, and socially deprecating imposition. These views inspired their attempts to undermine the slave system that the British had established in Jamaica shortly after they captured the island in 1655. Acts of resistance took place throughout the island-colony and were recorded on the sugar plantations and in the courts, schools, and Christian churches. The slaveholders envisaged all of these sites as participants in their attempts to dominate the enslaved people. Regardless, the enslaved had re-envisioned and had used these places as sites of empowerment, and to show that they would never accept the designation of 'slave.'
Jamaica in 1850
Jamaica in 1850 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica in 1850 write by John Bigelow. This book was released on 1851. Jamaica in 1850 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
