Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 27
... Indian sugar reduced and eventually abolished , all combined with the intransigeance of the planter to assure the beginning of the decline of British West Indian prosperity by the end of the eighteenth century . In the first twenty ...
... Indian sugar reduced and eventually abolished , all combined with the intransigeance of the planter to assure the beginning of the decline of British West Indian prosperity by the end of the eighteenth century . In the first twenty ...
Page 44
... India , has illustrated the intense conflict in the soul of the Indian . But where much of the aboriginal culture has been destroyed , as was the case of the slave in the West Indies , the feelings of hatred and rejection are very much ...
... India , has illustrated the intense conflict in the soul of the Indian . But where much of the aboriginal culture has been destroyed , as was the case of the slave in the West Indies , the feelings of hatred and rejection are very much ...
Page 94
... Indian community is mainly concentrated in the sugar parishes and the urban area of the capital . Of a total of ... Indian marriage with the coloured woman as the mistress or concubine . The Indian community as such was not studied ...
... Indian community is mainly concentrated in the sugar parishes and the urban area of the capital . Of a total of ... Indian marriage with the coloured woman as the mistress or concubine . The Indian community as such was not studied ...
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