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Book Eighteen Months in Jamaica

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaica written by Theodore Foulks and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaica

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  • Author : Theodore Foulks
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019792650
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaica written by Theodore Foulks and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Foulks recounts his experiences during the 1865 rebellion in Jamaica and his 18-month imprisonment by the Jamaican authorities. This book provides important insights into the politics and social conditions of Jamaica during the mid-19th century and sheds light on the complicated relationship between the British Empire and its colonial subjects. 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 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. 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.

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaica

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  • Author : Theodore Foulks
  • Publisher : Scholar's Choice
  • Release : 2015-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781296123130
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaica written by Theodore Foulks and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 124 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.

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaica

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  • Author : Theodore Foulks
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-05-26
  • ISBN : 9780282054717
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaica written by Theodore Foulks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighteen Months in Jamaica: With Recollections of the Late Rebellion To those, however, who have never been at sea, there is something very striking in the appearance of a ship during a heavy gale of wind. The vessel seems to be shorn of much of her beauty. She is, perhaps, lying-to under a reefed main-tri-sail, or close reefed main-top-sail and mizen. She seems stripped of her clothing, groaning and labouring in the midst of the tumult by which she is surrounded. The waves rise in angry struggle around her; they open, as it were, a watery grave; while death sits frowning on every foaming billow. It is in scenes like these, that the British sailor shines forth in his peculiar character. No howling nor violence of the storm, no heaving nor pitching of the ship daunts his English heart. He mounts the rigging with intrepidity, lays himself out on the yard, sits on the yard arm, steadily and cheerfully exerting himself to perform his allotted duty. This noble self-possession must be seen to be fully appreciated. A late British admiral once declared, that in a storm or a battle, an English sailor was more than human. 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.

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaic

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  • Author : Theodore Foulks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781436830621
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaic written by Theodore Foulks and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaic

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  • Author : Theodore Foulks
  • Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 9781436892278
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaic written by Theodore Foulks and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Eighteen Months in Jamaica

Download or read book Eighteen Months in Jamaica written by Theodore Foulks and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified List of Books in the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica  1923

Download or read book Classified List of Books in the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica 1923 written by Institute of Jamaica. Library and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africa in America

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  • Author : Michael Mullin
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780252064463
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Africa in America written by Michael Mullin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to lay bare the historical and cultural roots of modern African American societies in the South and the British West Indies, Michael Mullin gives a vivid depiction of slave family life, economic strategies, and religion and their relationship to patterns of resistance and acculturation in two major plantation regions, the Caribbean and the American South. Generalized observations of plantation slavery, usually assumed to be the whole of Africans' experience, fail to provide definitive answers about how they met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives. Mullin discusses three phases of slave resistance and religion in Anglo-America, both on and off plantations. During the first, or African, phase from the 1730s to the 1760s slave resistance was generally sudden, violently destructive, and charged with African ritual. The second phase, from the late 1760s to the early 1800s, involved plantation slaves who were more conservative and wary. The third phase, from the late 1760s to the second quarter of the nineteenth century, was led by assimilated blacks - artisans and drivers - who, having developed skills both on and off the plantation, led the large preemancipation rebellions. Mullin's case studies of slaveowners and plantation overseers draw on personal diaries and other documents to reveal memorable men whose approaches to their jobs varied widely and were as much affected by interactions with slaves as by personal background, the location of the plantation, and the economic climate of the times. Extensive archival and anecdotal sources inform this pioneering study of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Bringing his training in anthropology to bear on sources from Great Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States, Mullin offers new and definitive information.

Book Mastery  Tyranny  and Desire

Download or read book Mastery Tyranny and Desire written by Trevor Burnard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-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

Book Articulating British Classicism

Download or read book Articulating British Classicism written by Elizabeth McKellar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.

Book African Lace bark in the Caribbean

Download or read book African Lace bark in the Caribbean written by Steeve O. Buckridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Caribbean history, the European colonial plantocracy created a cultural diaspora in which African slaves were torn from their ancestral homeland. In order to maintain vital links to their traditions and culture, slaves retained certain customs and nurtured them in the Caribbean. The creation of lace-bark cloth from the lagetta tree was a practice that enabled slave women to fashion their own clothing, an exercise that was both a necessity, as clothing provisions for slaves were poor, and empowering, as it allowed women who participated in the industry to achieve some financial independence. This is the first book on the subject and, through close collaboration with experts in the field including Maroon descendants, scientists and conservationists, it offers a pioneering perspective on the material culture of Caribbean slaves, bringing into focus the dynamics of race, class and gender. Focussing on the time period from the 1660s to the 1920s, it examines how the industry developed, the types of clothes made, and the people who wore them. The study asks crucial questions about the social roles that bark cloth production played in the plantation economy and colonial society, and in particular explores the relationship between bark cloth production and identity amongst slave women.

Book Nat Turner  Black Prophet

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  • Author : Anthony E. Kaye
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2024-08-13
  • ISBN : 142994353X
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Nat Turner Black Prophet written by Anthony E. Kaye and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." —David W. Blight, Los Angeles Times A Chicago Tribune book of the summer | A Goodreads most anticipated summer book A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion—and the new definitive account. In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were hanged. As news of the revolt spread, it became apparent that it was the idea of a single man: Nat Turner. An enslaved preacher, he was as enigmatic as he was brilliant. He was also something more—a prophet, one who claimed to have received visions from the Spirit urging him to act. Nat Turner, Black Prophet is the fullest recounting to date of Turner’s uprising, and the first that refuses to tame or overlook his divine visions. Instead, it takes those visions seriously, tracing their emergence from the world of nineteenth-century Methodism, with its revivals, camp meetings, interracial churches, and Black preachers. The rebellion and its aftermath would hasten the end of this world, as Southern states further restricted the personal freedoms of the enslaved, even as the ongoing threat of revolt shaped the country’s politics. With this work of narrative history, the late historian Anthony E. Kaye and his collaborator Gregory P. Downs have given us a new understanding of one of the nineteenth century's most decisive events.

Book Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition  1780   1838

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.

Book Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica  1807 1834

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

Book Slaves and Missionaries

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  • Author : Mary Turner
  • Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9789766400453
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Slaves and Missionaries written by Mary Turner and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 27 December 1831 a fire on Kensington Estate in St James, Jamaica signalled the start of one of the largest slave revolts in the Caribbean. Its leaders were leaders also in the mission churches and the independent sects, and their followers expected the missionaries to support them in their bid for wage work and free status. The missionaries, however, sent to save souls from sin in the face of planter hostility, were explicitly committed to neutrality on the slavery issue. This book traces the response of all classes in Jamaican society to mission work, focusing in particular on the dynamic interplay between slaves and missionaries. Embraced as fellow sinners, assured of spiritual equality of all before God, their intellectual equality with whites demonstrated in schools and classes, the slaves imbued Christianity with political purpose and questioned why blacks and whites were equal after death but slave and master in life. The slaves transformed the question into action in the political circumstances created by the decade-long campaign for abolition, and in doing so made the missionaries themselves into committed anti-slavery campaigners.

Book The Sugar Barons

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  • Author : Matthew Parker
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-11-13
  • ISBN : 0802777988
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Sugar Barons written by Matthew Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the rise and fall of Caribbean sugar dynasties, discussing the Britain's dependence on colony wealth, the role of slavery in sugar plantation culture, and the North American colonial opposition to sugar policy in London.