The Story of the Jamaican People Sherlock, Philip

Bennett, Hazel
Ian Randle Publishers
Year of publishing: 1998
Place of publishing: Kingston
ISBN: 9768100303
Language: English
Series: first

The story pivots on the theme of the creation of a unified nation out of conflicting interests and understandings. Jamaica's flat lands permitted industrial-scale plantations, but the mountains have always embraced escapees. Control by a small number of absentee white plantation owners contributed to brutal neglect of the island, but the large numbers of black imported laborers facilitated generalized revolt. The maroons fought valiantly for their freedom, but later collaborated with planters against run-away slaves to maintain that freedom. Adjustment to servitude and post-plantation oppression has always kindled divisive violence in the very people known for their cooperative spirit and eternal warmth. For much of this history, Jamaica was, as the authors remark, not a nation but a name; no one called Jamaica home (p. 156). The contradictions germinated the dialectical seed of nationhood, however- a process of self-formation born in the tumultuous days of urban proletarian protest of the 1930's and coming of age in the nationalist decolonization struggles of the 1950's and 1960's.

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