Jamaica - AAIHS

Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

As a child growing up in Jamaica, going to the movies was a moment of national pride–not because of the

*This is the fifth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

Back in October, I wrote about Abeng, the short-lived Jamaican radical newspaper which, in the late 1960s, played a central