The History of Jamaica, Volume 3
Author: Edward Long
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2003-04-04
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 0773571140
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The History of Jamaica from 1494 to 1838
Author: Thibault Ehrengardt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book goes from the arrival of Columbus, to the taverns of Port Royal, to the runaway slaves who defeated the English to the slaves' rebellions and everyday life.
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-17
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0807898740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.
Testimonies on The History of Jamaica Vol. 1
Author: Zakiya McKenzie
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 191423605X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory was written—England captured Jamaica from the Spaniards under Oliver Cromwell in 1655. Much of this history has been retold by Edward Long, best known for his first socio-economic and political study The History of Jamaica. His polemic supported the enslavement of African and Caribbean people and the monopolies and monocultures played out through the natural environment. These testimonies address some of Long's claims. A slave woman tells of the naming of Catherine's Peak and the erasure of the achievements of Black Jamaicans in the field of natural history. A mystic takes us back to the Spanish occupation. The maroons Juan de Bolas and Juan de Serras grieve their fate and the tragic future that came with sugarcane. These are imaginings of what the people who lived through this wrestling of Jamaica might have said, given the chance.
The History of Jamaica
Author: Edward Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-31
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1108016464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn influential three-volume survey of Jamaica's early colonial history and economy, from a pro-slavery viewpoint, published in 1774.
Jamaica in the Age of Revolution
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 081225192X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book focuses on the history of Jamaica during the years between Tacky's Revolt, the American Revolution, and the beginnings of parliamentary abolitionist legislation in 1788"--
The Caribbean People
Author: Lennox Honychurch
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780175664061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Caribbean People' is a three-book 'History' series for Secondary schools. Tracing the origins and developments of the Caribbean region, Book 1 starts with Early Civilisation, Tribes and Settlers, followed by Colonisation and Plantations in Book 2. Book 3 looks at modern West Indian society, more recent history and current affairs.
The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending
Author: James Knight
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 0813945577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.
The Book of Night Women
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1101011319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.
General History of the Carribean UNESCO Vol.3
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-12
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1349737704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 3 looks at various aspects of slave societies in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Throughout the tortuous history of the Caribbean, nothing exceeded in fundamental importance the twin experiences of slavery and the plantation system, the defining episodes of Caribbean social reality. Topics addressed include: European 'settler colonies,' the sugar revolutions, forms of resistance, the influence of creolization and religious beliefs, and the place of the Maroon communities. Knight also examines the internal and external forces that led to the eventual collapse of the Caribbean slave system.
