Slavery in Spanish Jamaica

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Note on Abridgment xvii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Introduction 1
6. I Becoming Jamaica
7. Introduction 7
8. Taíno Society 13
9. Taíno Worship 17
10. The First European Account of Jamaica 21
11. A Spanish Settler in Jamaica 25
12. The Spanish Capital 30
13. Slavery in Spanish Jamaica 34
14. A Description of Spanish Jamaica 36
15. The Economy of Spanish Jamaica 38
16. The Western Design 41
17. Mountains of Gold Turned into Dross 43
18. The Establishment of Maroon Society 46
19. II From English Conquest to Slave Society
20. Pirate Stronghold 49
21. Port Royal Destroyed 55
22. White Servants 60
23. The Rise of Slave Society 64
24. African Music in Jamaica 68
25. A Maroon Tradition 71
26. Treaty between the British and the Maroons 74
27. African Arrivals 78
28. Spiritual Terror 84
29. Two Enslaved Lives 87
30. Increase and Decrease 91
31. A Free Black Poet 93
32. Jamaica Talk 96
33. The War of 1760–1761 101
34. III Enlightenment Slavery
35. Creole Society 109
36. Cane and Coffee 115
37. Women’s and Men’s Work under Slavery 118
38. Although a Slave Me Is Born and Bred 121
39. Capture and Enslavement 123
40. The Black Church 126
41. British Missionaries 129
42. The Second Maroon War 132
43. Jonkanoo 134
44. Provision Grounds 140
45. The Liberation War of 1831 143
46. Apprenticeship and Its Conflicts 147
47. An Apprentice’s Story 150
48. Because of 1833 153
49. IV Colonial Freedom
50. Free Villages 159
51. Cholera 168
52. Black Voters 171
53. Religion after Slavery 174
54. Indentured Workers 177
55. The Morant Bay Rebellion 181
56. Dear Lucy 186
57. Vindicating the Race 189
58. August Town Craze 192
59. Anansi and the Tiger 196
60. The 1907 Earthquake 199
61. Traveling from Kingston to Montego Bay 203
62. V Jamaica Arise
63. Life in Rural Jamaica 209
64. An Amazing Island 215
65. Marcus Garvey Comes to the United States 217
66. Jamaica and the Great War 221
67. Returning from War 224
68. Self-Government for Jamaica 228
69. The 1938 Rebellion 231
70. Remembering the Rebellion 234
71. Now We Know 241
72. Cookshop Culture 244
73. My Mother Who Fathered Me 248
74. The Origins of Dreadlocks 253
75. Pleasure Island 259
76. Hurricane Charlie 262
77. Jamaican East Indians 264
78. Blackness and Beauty 268
79. Chinese Jamaica 271
80. Bauxite 274
81. The West Indies Federation 279
82. Rastafari and the New Nation 283
83. VI Independence and After
84. A Date with Destiny 289
85. The Meaning of Independence 295
86. The Assets We Have 298
87. Rastafari and the Coral Gardens Incident 302
88. Country Boy 307
89. How to Be a “Face-Man” 309
90. Cancer in West Kingston 312
91. Birth of the Sound System 317
92. Rudie, Oh Rudie! 321
93. 1968 Revisited 325
94. The Visual Arts 330
95. Better Mus’ Come 334
96. Bob Marley’s Fame 336
97. Ganja Smoking 341
98. We Are Not for Sale 344
99. Zig-Zag Politics and the IMF 349
100. Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow 353
101. Equal Rights 356
102. A Helper’s Story 359
103. VII Jamaica in the Age of Neoliberalism
104. Nine Months of Turmoil 363
105. Seaga v. Manley 370
106. Born Fi’ Dead 373
107. Sunsplash 1984 376
108. Walking Jewellery Store 380
109. Hurricane Story, 1988 384
110. Wild Gilbert 386
111. Showing Skin Teeth 389
112. Slackness 393
113. Downtown Ladies 397
114. Jamaica’s Shame 401
115. Woman Time Now 406
116. A Wild Ride 408
117. Skin Bleaching 411
118. Tragedy in Tivoli 414
119. The Cell Phone and the Economy of Communication 420
120. Unsustainable Development 424
121. The Case for Reparations 427
122. These Islands of Love and Hate 430
123. VIII Jamaicans in the World
124. In the Canal Zone 435
125. A Diaspora Story 442
126. Going to Cuba 444
127. Tropics in New York 448
128. Little Brown Girl 449
129. Colonization in Reverse 454
130. A Farmworker in Florida 457
131. Reggae and Possible Africas 462
132. Canadian-Jamaican 465
133. A Maid in New York City 467
134. My Great Shun 471
135. Homecomers 473
136. Return to Jamaica 475
137. Things Change 480
138. Jamaica to the World 483
139. Suggestions for Further Reading 487
140. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 493
141. Index 503