Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 20
... land for food crops , drove the government to experiment with schemes of land settlement for poor whites . Later in the 1750's , frightened by a succession of negro insurrections , the govern- ment offered £ 145 to every planter who ...
... land for food crops , drove the government to experiment with schemes of land settlement for poor whites . Later in the 1750's , frightened by a succession of negro insurrections , the govern- ment offered £ 145 to every planter who ...
Page 67
... land settlements for small peasant proprietors , as have those surrounding the town . Others are still in private hands or have been sold piecemeal . All the activities of the past go on but on a very much diminished scale . The ...
... land settlements for small peasant proprietors , as have those surrounding the town . Others are still in private hands or have been sold piecemeal . All the activities of the past go on but on a very much diminished scale . The ...
Page 73
... land settlement in the west houses are inter- spersed between shops . The road to the east is lined by a few shops and then develops into the middle class residential area , with by - roads leading to the sea . Two land settlements are ...
... land settlement in the west houses are inter- spersed between shops . The road to the east is lined by a few shops and then develops into the middle class residential area , with by - roads leading to the sea . Two land settlements are ...
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