"Although oath-taking at the outset of Jack’s 1824 rebellion had followed the eighteenth century pattern, which was re…"

"In addition to the Baptists, Methodist missionaries commenced a concerted effort to convert Africans in Jamaica aroun…"

"Although black preachers were common in both Methodist and Native Baptist ministries, the latter would become the cen…"

"[N]ewspaper and journal articles from the mid-nineteenth century suggest that colonial authorities suppressed the pra…"

"It is an incredibly provincial and oppressive place. There are things about it like the landscape, and some of the pe…"

"when I was growing up in Jamaica it was still a colony, and the teachers I had at Saint Andrews were, for the most pa…"

"Jamaicans are very comical people, and laughter is a way of coping with life’s displeasures. Also, when you make some…"

"Oliver Cromwell intended Jamaica to serve as a base for plunder, much like Providence Island a few decades before—inc…"

"If we look about us we see the lengthening shadows of a thousand small corruptions creeping across the landscape of o…"

"Jamaica and , the centerpieces of the eighteenth century British and French colonial systems, respectively, were soci…"