From the childhood vacations spent at historic sites across the eastern seaboard that helped put me on this path to the endless number of phone calls just to say Hang in there, my parents have been there with me and for me from the beginning. First, I want to thank my family for their unconditional love and support. This book has been a long labor of love sixteen years in the making, and it would not have been possible without the many people who helped it come to fruition. Akan Day Names in Jamaica Acknowledgments Regional Percentages of Africans Imported into Jamaica, 1701–1808Ĥ. The Social Stratification of Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1750–1834ģ.
That iniquitous law: The Apprenticeship and Emancipation of Jamaica’s Enslaved ChildrenĢ. Train up a child in the way he should go: Childhood and Education in the Jamaican Slave CommunityĤ.
The child whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father’s care: Miscegenation and Childhood in Jamaican Slave Societyģ. To so dark a destiny My lovely babe I’ve borne: Slavery and Childhood in Jamaica in the Age of AbolitionĢ. paper: paperback)īritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data availableįor Ali, my Jamaican mother, sister, and friend. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015931438 © 2015 by the University of Georgia Press Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838 Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia For more information, please visit Advisory BoardĬornelia Hughes Dayton, University of ConnecticutĪmy S. Read moreĮarly American Places is a collaborative project of the University of Georgia Press, New York University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, and the University of Nebraska Press. These are just a few of the ways that Vasconcellos reveals an overlooked childhood-one that was often defined by Jamaican planters but always contested and redefined by the slaves themselves. In addition, she shows how traditions, beliefs, and practices within the slave community undermined planters’ efforts to ensure a compliant workforce by instilling Christian values in enslaved children. Vasconcellos adds detail and meaning to these tensions by looking, for instance, at enslaved children of color, legally termed mulattos, who had unique ties to both slave and planter families. At the same time, the childhood experience was shaped by the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse slave community. In the half-century covered by her study, Jamaican planters alternately saw enslaved children as burdens or investments. Vasconcellos explores the experiences of enslaved children through the lenses of family, resistance, race, status, culture, education, and freedom.
BATTLE SLAVES JAMAICA FREE
Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood-and how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power, the fortunes of planters rose and fell, and the nature of work on Jamaica’s estates evolved from slavery to apprenticeship to free labor. This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean.
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