The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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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