Cover
Contents
Note on Abridgment
Acknowledgments
Color Plates
Introduction
I. Becoming Jamaica
Taíno Society, Kit W. Wesler
Taíno Worship, Ramón Pané
The First European Account of Jamaica, Andrés Bernáldez
A Spanish Settler in Jamaica, Pedro de Maçuelo
The Spanish Capital, James Robertson
Slavery in Spanish Jamaica, Francisco Morales Padrón
A Description of Spanish Jamaica, Francisco Marques de Villalobos
The Economy of Spanish Jamaica, Alonzo de Miranda
The Western Design, Juan Ramírez
Mountains of Gold Turned into Dross, Anonymous
The Establishment of Maroon Society, Robert Sedgwicke and William Goodson
II. From English Conquest to Slave Society
Pirate Stronghold, Nuala Zahedieh
Port Royal Destroyed, Anonymous
White Servants, Government of Jamaica
The Rise of Slave Society, Richard S. Dunn
African Music in Jamaica, Hans Sloane
A Maroon Tradition, Collected by Kenneth M. Bilby
Treaty between the British and the Maroons, Anonymous
African Arrivals, Audra A. Diptee
Spiritual Terror, Vincent Brown
Two Enslaved Lives, Trevor Burnard
Increase and Decrease, Managers of Haughton Tower Estate
A Free Black Poet, Francis Williams
Jamaica Talk, Frederic G. Cassidy
The War of 1760–1761, Edward Long
III. Enlightenment Slavery
Creole Society, Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite
Cane and Coffee, Robert Charles Dallas
Women’s and Men’s Work under Slavery, Lucille Mathurin Mair
Although a Slave Me Is Born and Bred, Recorded by J. B. Moreton
Capture and Enslavement, Archibald John Monteath
The Black Church, George Liele
British Missionaries, Mary Turner
The Second Maroon War, Representatives of the Trelawny Town Maroons
Jonkanoo, Michael Scott
Provision Grounds, Sidney Mintz
The Liberation War of 1831, Henry Bleby
Apprenticeship and Its Conflicts, Diana Paton
An Apprentice’s Story, James Williams
Because of 1833, Andrew Salkey
IV. Colonial Freedom
Free Villages, Jean Besson
Cholera, Samuel Jones
Black Voters, Swithin Wilmot
Religion after Slavery, Hope Waddell
Indentured Workers, Verene Shepherd
The Morant Bay Rebellion, Gad Heuman
Dear Lucy, George William Gordon
Vindicating the Race, Rev. R. Gordon
August Town Craze, Frederick S. Sanguinetti
Anansi and the Tiger, Walter Jekyll
The 1907 Earthquake, Dick Chislett
Traveling from Kingston to Montego Bay, Herbert de Lisser
V. Jamaica Arise
Life in Rural Jamaica, Lorna Goodison
An Amazing Island, W. E. B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey Comes to the United States, Marcus Garvey
Jamaica and the Great War, Daily Gleaner
Returning from War, Glenford Howe
Self-Government for Jamaica, W. Adolphe Roberts
The 1938 Rebellion, Richard Hart
Remembering the Rebellion, Lucius Watson
Now We Know, Roger Mais
Cookshop Culture, Planters’ Punch
My Mother Who Fathered Me, Edith Clarke
The Origins of Dreadlocks, Barry Chevannes
Pleasure Island, Esther Chapman
Hurricane Charlie, Spotlight
Jamaican East Indians, Laxmi and Ajai Mansingh
Blackness and Beauty, Rochelle Rowe
Chinese Jamaica, Easton Lee
Bauxite, Sherry Keith and Robert Girling
The West Indies Federation, Michele A. Johnson
Rastafari and the New Nation, Michael G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford
VI. Independence and After
A Date with Destiny, Daily Gleaner
The Meaning of Independence, Government of Jamaica
The Assets We Have, Norman Washington Manley
Rastafari and the Coral Gardens Incident, John Maxwell and Mortimo Togo Desta Planno
Country Boy, The Heptones
How to Be a “Face-Man,” The Star
Cancer in West Kingston, Edward Seaga
Birth of the Sound System, Norman C. Stolzoff
Rudie, Oh Rudie!, Garth White
1968 Revisited, Rupert Lewis
The Visual Arts, Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves
Better Mus’ Come, Delroy Wilson
Bob Marley’s Fame, Ed McCormack
Ganja Smoking, Daily News
We Are Not for Sale, Michael Manley
Zig-Zag Politics and the IMF, George L. Beckford
Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow, Oku Onuora
Equal Rights, Committee of Women for Progress
A Helper’s Story, Sistren, with Honor Ford Smith
VII. Jamaica in the Age of Neoliberalism
Nine Months of Turmoil, Barbara Nelson
Seaga v. Manley, Carl Stone
Born Fi’ Dead, Laurie Gunst
Sunsplash 1984, Roger Steffens
Walking Jewellery Store, Yellowman
Hurricane Story, 1988, Olive Senior
Wild Gilbert, Lloyd Lovindeer
Showing Skin Teeth, A. Lynn Bolles
Slackness, Lady Saw
Downtown Ladies, Gina A. Ulysse
Jamaica’s Shame, Thomas Glave
Woman Time Now, HG Helps
A Wild Ride, Robert Lalah
Skin Bleaching, Carolyn Cooper
Tragedy in Tivoli, W. Earl Witter and Livern Barrett
The Cell Phone and the Economy of Communication, Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller
Unsustainable Development, Esther Figueroa
The Case for Reparations, P. J. Patterson
These Islands of Love and Hate, Kei Miller
VIII. Jamaicans in the World
In the Canal Zone, Alfred Mitchell S.
A Diaspora Story, Lok C. D. Siu and Fernando Jackson
Going to Cuba, “Man-Boy”
Tropics in New York, Claude McKay
Little Brown Girl, Una Marson
Colonization in Reverse, Louise Bennett
A Farmworker in Florida, Delroy Livingston
Reggae and Possible Africas, Louis Chude-Sokei
Canadian-Jamaican, Carl E. James and Andrea Davis
A Maid in New York City, Shellee Colen
My Great Shun, Mutabaruka
Homecomers, C. S. Reid
Return to Jamaica, Emma Brooker
Things Change, Buju Banton
Jamaica to the World, Ingrid Brown
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
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