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This digital document is a journal article from The History of the Family, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Marriages were relatively infrequent among the white population of early British Jamaica. This article examines the ideological implications of the failure of whites to marry with sufficient regularity to ensure that white population increase would allow Jamaica to become a settler society on the British North American model. It looks, in particular, at the tendency of whites to live in irregular unions, either with other whites or with black or brown concubines, and the effect that such arrangements had on perceptions of white Jamaicans as especially immoral. It connects these views with other discourses on settler societies in which improvement and frequent marriage were linked. ... Read more

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This account is based on the tales of relations of those who were involved in the uprisings of the late 1700s by the Maroons - escaped slaves in Jamaica who banded together in a community, but were constantly in conflict with the British. This 1803 account is more literary than historical. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 812 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica.(Book review)
Author: Juanita de Barros
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 3Page: 572(3)

Article Type: Book review

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1803 edition by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, London. ... Read more