That was a dangerous risk – but in Jamaica, some enslaved Africans ... enslaved workforce in the Caribbean was employed on sugar cane plantations. The reality of their working lives were very ...

This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

Told through the eyes of July, a slave and spirited survivor, The Long Song is set in the 19 th century and explores the last days of slavery in British-ruled Jamaica. The story is about ...

Jamaica may offer many potential sites. Britain took Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655, and after a boom in piracy, sugar plantations worked by enslaved Africans became central to the island’s ...