Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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... century - there are frequent references to officials being allowed to import one or two duty free - but it is evident from the Abbot's figures that black slavery had not yet assumed serious pro- portions . By the seventeenth century ...
... century - there are frequent references to officials being allowed to import one or two duty free - but it is evident from the Abbot's figures that black slavery had not yet assumed serious pro- portions . By the seventeenth century ...
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... century sugar production - the estate . The eighteenth century buildings on the estate remained much as Dr. Trapham described them in the previous century . It was maintained that for efficient production in was necessary to work at ...
... century sugar production - the estate . The eighteenth century buildings on the estate remained much as Dr. Trapham described them in the previous century . It was maintained that for efficient production in was necessary to work at ...
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... century but as the century progresses the structure begins to be disturbed . The era of tremendous opulence when the term West Indian was synonymous with fantastic riches was destined to be short . The return of the French islands to ...
... century but as the century progresses the structure begins to be disturbed . The era of tremendous opulence when the term West Indian was synonymous with fantastic riches was destined to be short . The return of the French islands to ...
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acceptance acres African American appears attitude banana become behaviour called cent century child Christian church colour complete concubinage dependent distinction domestic group economic European existence expression extremely fact factor fair farms father feeling figures function girl give given greater hair hand Herskovits household important Indian Indies individual island Jamaica labour land less living London lower class majority marriage married means middle class moral mother Negro never Obeah occur origin parents parish particular pattern peasant period person planters play population Port Portland position poverty practice problem produce regarded relatives result seen sense served sexual shows similar slavery slaves social society status structure sugar TABLE taken tend tion town union United upper upper class West whole wife woman women