Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica written by J. Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica: With Remarks on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Slaves, and on the Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies Reader to form an accurate opinion of their more important features. On the state of society - the different classes of the free inhabitants - the character, customs, and moral and physical con dition of the slaves, and the, means proposed of improving their condition, as preliminary steps to the gradual abolition Of slavery, the author has been more circumstantial - these being topics of more particular interest, especially at the present moment, and on which his long residence in the island has enabled him to supply many im. Portant particulars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A view of the past and present state of the island of Jamaica written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica With Remarks on the Condition of the Slaves and on the Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies Scholar s Choice Edition written by Division of Medical Microbiology John Stewart and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica with Remarks on the Condition of the Slaves and on the Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A view of the past and present state of the island of Jamaica written by Peter Stewart (géographe.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the Last and Present State of the Island of Jamaica written by J. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica with Remarks on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Slaves and on the Abolition Of written by John Stewart and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XVIL RELIGIOUS OPINIONS OF THE NEGROES THOUGHTS ON INSTRUCTING THEM IN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. The African negroes of the West Indies, whatever superstitious notions they may bring with them from their native country, agree in believing the existence of an omnipotent Being, who will reward or punish us in a future life for our good or evil actions in this. But their ideas in other respects are peculiar and fanciful. They think that, for some unexpiated guilt, or through some unaccountable folly of the primitive blacks, servitude was the unfortunate lot assigned to them, while dominion was given to the more favoured whites. Their superstitious reverence for certain animals, common in their own country, they retain in some degree. Some tribes are far more rational than others in their religious opinions. By intercourse with each other, and with the Europeans, the absurdity of many of their native superstitions is gradually laid aside--at least in practice. One opinion they all agree in, and that is the expectation that, after death, they shall first return to their native country, and enjoy again the society of kindred and friends, from whom they have been torn away in an evil hour. This idea, combined with their terrors, used to prompt numbers, on their first arrival, to acts of suicide. As an example to deter others from this crime, the head of the unhappy wretch who thus, from a delusive hope, laid violent hands on his life, used to be cut off and fixed on a pole by the side of some public road, a dismal and disgusting spectacle, while the body was sometimes consumed by fire. This, it was thought by some, would induce a belief in the survivors, that the body, thus annihilated, could not again be restored to life and liberty, as...
Download or read book Remarks on the Condition of the Slaves in the Island of Jamaica written by William Sells and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica 1788 1838 written by Colleen A. Vasconcellos and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood—and how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power, the fortunes of planters rose and fell, and the nature of work on Jamaica's estates evolved from slavery to apprenticeship to free labor. Vasconcellos explores the experiences of enslaved children through the lenses of family, resistance, race, status, culture, education, and freedom. In the half-century covered by her study, Jamaican planters alternately saw enslaved children as burdens or investments. At the same time, the childhood experience was shaped by the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse slave community. Vasconcellos adds detail and meaning to these tensions by looking, for instance, at enslaved children of color, legally termed mulattos, who had unique ties to both slave and planter families. In addition, she shows how traditions, beliefs, and practices within the slave community undermined planters' efforts to ensure a compliant workforce by instilling Christian values in enslaved children. These are just a few of the ways that Vasconcellos reveals an overlooked childhood—one that was often defined by Jamaican planters but always contested and redefined by the slaves themselves.
Download or read book Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807 1834 written by B. W. Higman and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole. Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Download or read book The Reaper s Garden written by Vincent Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Longlisted for the Cundill Prize “Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The Reaper’s Garden stretches the historical canvas and forces readers to think afresh. It is a major contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery.”—Ira Berlin From the author of Tacky’s Revolt, a landmark study of life and death in colonial Jamaica at the zenith of the British slave empire. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America—and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force. In this compelling and evocative story of a world in flux, Brown shows that death was as generative as it was destructive. From the eighteenth-century zenith of British colonial slavery to its demise in the 1830s, the Grim Reaper cultivated essential aspects of social life in Jamaica—belonging and status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. Surveying a haunted landscape, Brown unfolds the letters of anxious colonists; listens in on wakes, eulogies, and solemn incantations; peers into crypts and coffins, and finds the very spirit of human struggle in slavery. Masters and enslaved, fortune seekers and spiritual healers, rebels and rulers, all summoned the dead to further their desires and ambitions. In this turbulent transatlantic world, Brown argues, “mortuary politics” played a consequential role in determining the course of history. Insightful and powerfully affecting, The Reaper’s Garden promises to enrich our understanding of the ways that death shaped political life in the world of Atlantic slavery and beyond.
Download or read book Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition 1780 1838 written by Henrice Altink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Download or read book Slaveholders in Jamaica written by Christer Petley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.
Download or read book The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination 1764 1834 written by Emily Senior and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Download or read book The Oriental herald and colonial review ed by J S Buckingham written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
