Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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... never really a success . In Trinidad , however , the Indians proved excellent workers and immigration did not cease till 1917 . Some Chinese arrived in Jamaica from Panama in 1854 as indentured labour . Later more were brought from Hong ...
... never really a success . In Trinidad , however , the Indians proved excellent workers and immigration did not cease till 1917 . Some Chinese arrived in Jamaica from Panama in 1854 as indentured labour . Later more were brought from Hong ...
Page 141
Fernando Henriques. prevents it returning . It is never done by anyone who thinks well of the dead person's family . One must never look through one's legs at the coffin when it is passing as then the spirit of the dead person will be ...
Fernando Henriques. prevents it returning . It is never done by anyone who thinks well of the dead person's family . One must never look through one's legs at the coffin when it is passing as then the spirit of the dead person will be ...
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... never get a piece of it tonight for you eat your share already . " I got for my supper bread an tea . I did not take up the chicken the way I was vexed . I got one flogging , that I will never forget I went to my bed at eight o'clock ...
... never get a piece of it tonight for you eat your share already . " I got for my supper bread an tea . I did not take up the chicken the way I was vexed . I got one flogging , that I will never forget I went to my bed at eight o'clock ...
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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