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• Jamaican History and Culture – Plantocracy, Part IV
  on Jun 19, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  Sugar estate in Jamaica, 1837 (Magasin7) | Le Magasin Pittoresque (1837) Violence, brutality and sexual assaults were at the very heart of Jamaican slavery. Whites saw the instilling of terror as the surest way to maintain their dominance over the en...
• Jamaican History and Culture – Plantocracy, Part III
  on Jun 10, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  Spring Garden Estate, St. George’s | James Hakewill When they arrived on their first Jamaican sugar estate, slaves received “seasoning,” whereby they accustomed themselves to Jamaican diseases, plantation routine and learned how to use basic to...
• Jamaican History and Culture – Plantocracy, Part II
  on Jun 9, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  This has been one of the most difficult sections for me to write for I have tried to strike a balance between giving an accurate description of the times and not seeming to apologize for, or to excuse or otherwise condone the behaviour of my salve-ow...
• Jamaican History and Culture – Plantocracy, Part I
  on Jun 5, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  Port Maria, St. Mary’s | Drawn by James Hakewill, engraved by Clarke   Published Aug. 1, 1825 by Hurst Robinson & Co., 90 Cheapside, & E. Lloyd, Harley Street Before continuing, I’d like to say a few words about historical dates. While...
• Jamaican History and Culture – Pre-emancipation social environment
  on Jun 1, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  Bridge over the Rio Cobre | Drawn by James Hakewill, engraved by J. Cartwright Hostilities with Spain and a rebellion in 1660 against Colonel Doyley's military rule marked the early years of English occupation. After the 1660 restoration of...
• Jamaican History and Culture – Privateers, Buccaneers, Pirates and War
  on May 26, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture Privateers & Pirates
  England had long used the practice of issuing commissions (letters of marque) to private vessels as a way of augmenting its navy in times of war. After 1665, however, Caribbean privateering took a more ambiguous form: buccaneers. Located as it was, a...
• Jamaican History and Culture – The People, part III
  on May 25, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  From 1655 to 1807, hundreds of thousands of additional Africans arrived in Jamaica along with a steady, though much smaller, flow of European immigrants primarily from the British Isles. From these “founding races” came Jamaica’s Afro-Europeans...
• Jamaican History and Culture – The People, Part II
  on May 23, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture Maroons
  As provided for by the treaties of 1739 that ended the First Maroon War, the Maroons were instrumental in putting down the most serious slave rebellion in Jamaica’s history, Tacky’s Rebellion of 1760. In fact, it was a Maroon marksman, Davy, who...
• Jamaican History and Culture – The People, Part I
  on May 22, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture Jamaican Maroons Maroons
  Arudimentary understanding of Jamaica cannot be reached without, at least, some basic knowledge of the island’s people. Jamaica’s coat of arms speaks of its people by its depiction of a Taíno couple and with Jamaica’s motto: Out of many, one p...
• Jamaican History and Culture – English Conquest
  on May 20, 2015 in Jamaica: History & Culture
  On May 10, 1655, an English fleet of 38 ships and 8,000 men anchored in Caguaya Bay, the landing place for Villa de la Vega, the capital of Santiago. The Spanish colony, thinly populated and weakly defended, was no match for so large an invasion forc...

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