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Journal articles on the topic "Slavery in Jamaica"

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Shamsul Haq Thoker. "Theme of Identity: A Study of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song." Creative Launcher 4, no. 5 (2019): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.5.06.

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The Long Song (2010) is a contemporary Caribbean neo-slave narrative written by Andrea Levy. The novel revisits the period of slavery in the early nineteenth century Jamaica depicting the experiences of a slave girl, July at Amity - a sugarcane plantation in Jamaica. Written in the background of a famous Jamaican slave rebellion, the Baptist War erupted in 1831, the abolition of slavery in 1833 and its aftermath, the novel details the life of the slaves on Jamaican plantations before and after the period of emancipation. Replete with the theme of identity, the novel explores the ethnic and cul
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Parry, Tyler D., and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas*." Past & Present 246, no. 1 (2020): 69–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020.

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Abstract The lash and shackles remain two primary symbols of material degradation fixed in the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. Yet as recounted by states, abolitionists, travellers, and most importantly slaves themselves, perhaps the most terrifying and effective tool for disciplining black bodies and dominating their space was the dog. This article draws upon archival research and the published materials of former slaves, novelists, slave owners, abolitionists, Atlantic travelers, and police reports to link the systems of slave hunting in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the US South t
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Sheridan, Richard B. "The condition of the slaves on the sugar plantations of Sir John Gladstone in the colony of Demerara, 1812-49." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 76, no. 3-4 (2002): 243–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002536.

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Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner John Gladstone, placed within the context of slavery and the abolition of slavery, and the general colonial history of British Guiana, particularly in the Demerara colony. Author describes how Gladstone acquired several plantations with slaves in Demerara, and how he responded to the increasing criticism of slavery, and the bad conditions of slaves in these Demerara plantations. He describes how Gladstone was an absentee owner in Jamaica and Guyana, where he never set foot, and depended on informa
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Hickling, Frederick W. "Psychiatry in Jamaica." International Psychiatry 7, no. 1 (2010): 9–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600000928.

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The intense historical relationship linking Jamaica and Britain to 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade and 200 years of colonialism has left 2.7 million souls living in Jamaica, 80% of African origin, 15% of mixed Creole background and 5% of Asian Indian, Chinese and European ancestry. With a per capita gross domestic product of US$4104 in 2007, one-third of the population is impoverished, the majority struggling for economic survival. The prevailing religion is Protestant, although the presence of African retentions such as Obeah and Pocomania are still widely and profoundly experience
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Livesay, Daniel. "Elder Protest in Jamaican Slavery: Navigating Paternalism through Longevity." William and Mary Quarterly 82, no. 2 (2025): 177–204. https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2025.a957884.

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Abstract: This article analyzes the growing labor demands on elder enslaved Jamaicans at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the ways that those aging individuals resisted their enslavers' coercions. As England moved to abolish its slave trade in 1807, Jamaican planters drove enslaved elders harder than ever before to make up for labor shortfalls. This intensification produced a backlash, as those who had expected to "age out" of hard labor were forced to continue performing strenuous tasks. Elders resisted by running away from plantations, refusing to work, and bringing grievances before
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Hall, Catherine. "A Jamaica of the Mind: Gender, Colonialism, and the Missionary Venture." Studies in Church History 34 (1998): 361–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400013759.

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Mary Ann Middleditch, a young woman of twenty in 1833, living in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire and working in a school, confided in her letters her passionate feelings about Jamaica and the emancipation of slaves. The daughter of a Baptist minister, she had grown up in the culture of dissent and antislavery and felt deeply identified with the slaves whose stories had become part of the books she read, the sermons she heard, the hymns she sang, the poems she quoted, and the missionary meetings she attended. In 1833, at the height of the antislavery agitation, Mary Ann followed the progress
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Ellis, Harold. "Mary Seacole: Self Taught Nurse and Heroine of the Crimean War." Journal of Perioperative Practice 19, no. 9 (2009): 304–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/175045890901900907.

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Mary Jane Seacole was born Mary Grant in Kingston Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish army officer and her mother a free Jamaican black, (slavery was not fully abolished in Jamaica until 1838). Her mother ran a hotel, Blundell Hall, in Kingston and was a traditional healer. Her skill as a nurse was much appreciated, as many of her residents were disabled British soldiers and sailors. It was from her mother that Mary learned the art of patient care, and she also assisted at the local British army hospital.
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Myers, Jacob. "Keeping the Rat-Book: Marly and Visceral Histories of Jamaican Agriculture." Early American Literature 60, no. 1 (2025): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2025.a951902.

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Abstract: This essay analyzes descriptions of cane-rats, and rat-eating in particular, in Jamaica during the age of abolition. Reading the anonymous 1828 white creole novel Marly alongside natural histories and vernacular texts, I argue that the rat's viscerality—its ability to evoke strong, unmanageable feeling—disrupted proslavery writers' attempts to leverage the animal for their propaganda. Enslaved Jamaicans, in particular, kept their own histories of the cane-rat, its importation to the island, and its associated cuisine which centered their endurance in the face of enslaver cruelty and
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Huang, Kristina. "“Ameliorating the Situation” of Empire: Slavery and Abolition in The Woman of Colour." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 2 (2021): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.2.167.

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In this essay, I examine how The Woman of Colour (1808) extends from the ameliorative context of the British slavery debates that were about reforming imperial rule overseas in the wake of the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade. By thinking alongside the work of Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents, I argue that The Woman of Colour abstracts plantation slavery while positioning the protagonist Olivia Fairfield, a mixed-race heiress of a Jamaican plantation, as a figure of British imperial tutelage. The abstraction manifests through Dido, a secondary character whose relationship
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Rauhut, Claudia. "Reassessing the Compensation Payments to British Slave Owners in Current Caribbean Claims to Reparations." Sociologus: Volume 70, Issue 2 70, no. 2 (2020): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/soc.70.2.123.

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This paper deals with the compensation paid to British slave owners at the end of slavery in the 1830s. It explores its current reassessment within Caribbean claims to slavery reparations, exemplified by Jamaican activists and scholars, who have always been at the forefront of calls for reparations across the whole Americas in different regions and periods. Based on anthropological research and interviews I conducted with members of National Council for Reparations in Kingston in 2014 and 2017, I analyse how they trace back the legacies of slavery and compensation, link them to current social
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Slavery in Jamaica"

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Dunkley, Daive Anthony. "The slaves, the state and the church : slavery and amelioration in Jamaica 1797-1833." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/876/.

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This study explores slave agency and slave abolitionism during amelioration in Jamaica. The amelioration period was chosen because it offered the slave opportunities to acquire their freedom and improve their condition. Therefore, slave agency and abolitionism occurred more frequently after the start of amelioration, which officially began in Jamaica in 1797 when the planters embarked on a programme designed to improve slavery and prolong its existence. Amelioration continued until the British Parliament voted to abolish slavery in 1833.
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Trahey, Erin Malone. "Free women and the making of colonial Jamaican economy and society, 1760-1834." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285098.

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This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain's most important imperial holding. The colony's slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated incredible wealth. Still, Jamaica was the deadliest place to live in British America. Due to the endemic nature of tropical disease and atrocious mortality rates, neither the enslaved population nor the white population maintained itself naturally prior to emancipation. However, an environment characterized
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Williams, Jan Mark. "Stretching the Chains: Runaway Slaves in South Carolina and Jamaica." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625689.

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Cournil, Mélanie. "De la pratique esclavagiste aux campagnes abolitionnistes : une Ecosse en quête d'identité, XVII-XIX siècles." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2043.

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Ce travail de thèse a pour but d’étudier le degré d’implication des Écossais dans le système esclavagiste britannique graduellement mis en place dans les colonies du Nouveau Monde à partir du XVIIe siècle. Dans la lignée de publications récentes témoignant d’un intérêt grandissant pour la question, il vise à mettre au jour un pan problématique de l’histoire écossaise, qui trouve un écho particulier dans les discussions actuelles sur l’identité nationale écossaise. Cette thèse s’attarde ainsi sur le rôle particulier joué par les Écossais dans le développement économique de la traite négrière et
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Buckridge, Steeve O. ""Dem caa dress yah!" : dress as resistance and accommodation among Jamaican women from slavery to freedom 1760-1890 /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1273239678.

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Reid, Ahmed N. "Economic growth in a slave plantation society : the case of Jamaica, 1750-1805." Thesis, University of Hull, 2007. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16426.

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This dissertation is an economic impact assessment of Jamaica's plantation economy from 1750 to 1805. In doing so, it measures and examines growth in completely new ways by employing, as indicators, output, land prices, labour flows and prices, national income, and productivity trends. The study maintains that, rather than declining, the economy was growing, with most of that growth taking place during the decade before the Transatlantic Trade in Africans was abolished in 1807. Growth was also facilitated by the policies adopted by planters to reorganize the plantation system. The presence of
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Vernon, Margaret Ann. "Black Jamaican immigrant women's experiences, perceptions and responses to abuse from male spouses and partners, the impact of slavery." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22149.pdf.

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Vernon, Margaret Ann Carleton University Dissertation Social Work. "Black Jamaican immigrant women's experiences, perceptions and responses to abuse from male spouses and partners; the impact of slavery." Ottawa, 1997.

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Griffith-Hughes, Elisabeth. "A mighty experiment the transition from slavery to freedom in Jamaica, 1834-1838 /." 2003. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/griffith-hughes%5Felisabeth%5Fa%5F200308%5Fphd.

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Saunders, Paula Veronica. "Free and enslaved African communities in buff Bay, Jamaica : daily life, resistance, and kinship, 1750-1834." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/9759.

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Africans forcibly brought to the Americas during slavery came from very diverse cultural groups, languages, and geographical regions. African-derived creole cultures that were subsequently created in the Americas resulted from the interaction of various traditional African forms of knowledge and ideology, combined with elements from various Indigenous and European cultural groups and materials. Creating within the context of slavery, these complex set of experiences and choices made by Africans in the Americas resulted in an equally diverse range of fluid and complex relationships between vari
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Books on the topic "Slavery in Jamaica"

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Richard, Hart. Slaves who abolished slavery. Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1985.

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Altink, Henrice. Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838. Routledge, 2007.

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Mair, Lucille Mathurin. Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery. University of the West Indies Department of History, 1986.

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Mair, Lucille Mathurin. Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery. Dept. of History, University of the West Indies, 1987.

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Hall, Douglas. In miserable slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86. Macmillan Publishers, 1989.

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Brathwaite, Kamau. The development of Creole society in Jamaica, 1770-1820. Ian Randle Publishers, 2005.

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Barringer, T. J. Art and emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds. Yale Center for British Art, 2007.

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R, Wilmot Swithin, ed. Adjustments to emancipation in Jamaica. Social History Project, Dept. of History, University of the West Indies, 1988.

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Hall, Douglas. In miserable slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86. Macmillan, 1989.

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Hall, Douglas. In miserable slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86. The University of the West Indies Press, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Slavery in Jamaica"

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Fellows, Kristen R., and James A. Delle. "Marronage and the Dialectics of Spatial Sovereignty in Colonial Jamaica." In Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3_8.

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Waddell, Hope. "Religion after Slavery." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478013099-047.

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Waddell, Hope. "Religion after Slavery." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013099-048.

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Waddell, Hope. "Religion after Slavery." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1mnmx3x.54.

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Morales Padrón, Francisco. "Slavery in Spanish Jamaica." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478013099-010.

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Padrón, Francisco Morales. "Slavery in Spanish Jamaica." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013099-008.

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Padrón, Francisco Morales. "Slavery in Spanish Jamaica." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1mnmx3x.14.

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Khan, Fern June. "Reflections on Jamaican Life." In Through Jamaican Lenses. University Press of Mississippi, 2024. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496852953.003.0005.

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Opening with the description of a unique fifties beauty contest in this chapter, the author captures the climate of Jamaica during her early years. A multiracial, multicultural society, Jamaica has been shaped by colonization and slavery, as seen in color and class attitudes among the Jamaican populace. The author highlights the history of slave rebellions as catalysts which would eventually lead to emancipation in 1962. Additionally, the chapter chronicles the author's early life as she reflects on her own identity, values, and sense of self.
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Mair, Lucille Mathurin. "Women’s and Men’s Work under Slavery." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478013099-032.

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Mair, Lucille Mathurin. "Women’s and Men’s Work under Slavery." In The Jamaica Reader. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013099-032.

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