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    Language of dress : resistance and accomodation in Jamaica, 1760-1890 / by Buckridge, Steeve O.

    Subjects: “…Women, Black Clothing Political aspects Jamaica.…”
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    Jamaican folk medicine : a source of healing / by Payne-Jackson, Arvilla, Alleyne, Mervyn C., ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

    Table of Contents: “…The social historical context : slavery and its aftermath -- The ethnic dimension -- African and African-Jamaican religions -- Aetiology and illness -- Folk medical practitioners -- Treatments and health care -- The nature of healing herbs -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Drugstore medicines, Kingston, Jamaica.…”
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    The language of dress : resistance and accommodation in Jamaica, 1760-1890 / by Buckridge, Steeve O., PALCI EBSCO books

    Subjects: “…Women, Black Clothing Political aspects Jamaica.…”
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    Stepping forward : Black women in Africa and the Americas /

    Published: Ohio University Press, 2002
    Table of Contents: “…Image and Representation: Black Women in Historical Accounts of Colonial Jamaica /…”
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    The shadowed country : Claude McKay and the romance of the Victorians / by Gosciak, Josh

    Published: Rutgers University Press, 2006
    “…Jamaica In literature.…”
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    Religion and poverty : Pan-African perspectives / by Duke religion collection

    Published: Duke University Press, 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Cannon, United States -- Feminization of poverty across Pan-African societies : The Church's response; alleviative or emancipatory? / Barbara Bailey, Jamaica -- The informal economy and the religion of global capital / Takatso A. …”
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    Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels / by Levin, Amy K., 1957-, PALCI EBSCO books

    Table of Contents: “…Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers.…”
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    Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels / by Levin, Amy K., 1957-

    Table of Contents: “…Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers.…”
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    The biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua : his passage from slavery to freedom in Africa and America /

    Published: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001
    Table of Contents: “…The White Minority in Jamaica at the end of the Nineteenth Century /…”
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    Ruling emancipated slaves and indigenous subjects : the divergent legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the global south / by Owolabi, Olukunle P. (Olukunle Patrick)

    Published: Oxford University Press, 2023
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : forced settlement, colonial occupation, and the historical roots of divergent development in the global south -- A historical overview of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the global south -- Historical institutionalism, critical junctures, and the divergent legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation -- A global statistical analysis of forced settlement and colonial occupation : colonial institutions and postcolonial development -- Comparing British forced settlement and colonial occupation : Jamaica and Sierra Leone -- Comparing Portuguese forced settlement and colonial occupation : Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau -- A global tour of forced settlement and colonial occupation under French rule : From Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Les Antilles to Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa -- Conclusions, reflections, and avenues for future research.…”
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    Ruling emancipated slaves and indigenous subjects : the divergent legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the global south / by Owolabi, Olukunle P. (Olukunle Patrick), Oxford Scholarship Online

    Published: Oxford University Press, 2023
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : forced settlement, colonial occupation, and the historical roots of divergent development in the global south -- A historical overview of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the global south -- Historical institutionalism, critical junctures, and the divergent legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation -- A global statistical analysis of forced settlement and colonial occupation : colonial institutions and postcolonial development -- Comparing British forced settlement and colonial occupation : Jamaica and Sierra Leone -- Comparing Portuguese forced settlement and colonial occupation : Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau -- A global tour of forced settlement and colonial occupation under French rule : From Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Les Antilles to Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa -- Conclusions, reflections, and avenues for future research.…”
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    The end of slavery in Africa and the Americas : a comparative approach /

    Table of Contents: “…The Atlantic slave trade and a very small place in Africa : global processes and local factors in the history of Little Popo, 1680s to 1860s / by Silke Stickrodt -- The hobgoblins of the Middle Passage : the Cape and the trans-atlantic slave trade / by Patrick Harries -- The names of slavery and beyond : the Atlantic, the Americas and Cuba / by Michael Zeuske -- The Moravian mission and the emancipation of slaves in the Caribbean / by Claus Füllberg-Stolberg -- Black politics in free Jamaica, 1838-1865 / by Swithin R. Wilmot -- Slavery, abolition and post-emancipation in the French and Spanish Caribbean, especially Martinique and Cuba, in the network of global relations / by Ulrike Schmieder -- The end of slavery, the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the introduction of peonage / by Norbert Finzsch -- Afterword : trajectories of change / by Jan-Georg Deutsch.…”
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