Format:
1 Online-Ressource (515 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-4780-1309-9
Series Statement:
The Latin America readers
Content:
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 / Don Juan Ramirez ; Mountains of gold turned into dross / Anonymous ; The establishment of Maroon society / Robert Sedgwicke and William Goodson --
Content:
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 --
Content:
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 Monteith ; The Black church / George Liele ; British missionaries / Mary Turner ; The Second Maroon War / representatives of the Trelawney 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 --
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4780-1049-4
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-1151-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1215/9781478013099
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013099?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
Volltext
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