Gad Heuman, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, and specialist in the history of the Morant Bay Rebellion will talk to us about this particularly important event in Jamaican history. The Rebellion has been the subject of recent radio… Continue Reading
An FGSJ Zoom Talk on 22 March 2023 at 6.30p.m. (U.K. time) Matthew Webster from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will speak about the Bray School, the oldest school dedicated to Black education in the United States. Matthew will unlock the… Continue Reading
In the eighteenth century, Kingston’s “Spring Path” served as a burial place and location where African Jamaicans gathered to honor their heritage. When Olaudah Equiano, an African-descended man who wrote a powerful anti-slavery narrative, came ashore in Jamaica in 1771… Continue Reading
Historians of the British Caribbean now appreciate the formidable transformations that the Haitian Revolution made to the British islands in the terminal years of slavery. A complex historiography on the events in the former French colony has illuminated linking threads… Continue Reading
In Richard Cumberland’s popular play of 1771, The West Indian, the title character, Belcour, newly arrived in London, is described as having “rum and sugar enough belonging to him, to make all the water in the Thames into punch.” Cumberland uses this… Continue Reading
A few years ago, the late Robert Barker of the FGSJ discovered a map showing properties in the area of northern St. Mary (then St George) which had been surveyed in the early 1670s. Noticeable on the plan was a… Continue Reading
Women propped up the largest slave society in the British Empire. Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding… Continue Reading
In honour of Remembrance Day celebrations, Richard Smith speak to us on the role of Jamaicans and other West Indians in the World War I. He will tell us how early military enthusiasm in Jamaica contributed to the formation of… Continue Reading
An Analysis of the Role of the Enslaved Population on Ten Tharp Properties in 1805 Trelawny, Jamaica Following on from Ke Vaughn Harding’s talk on the recreation of a slave dwelling at Good Hope owned by planter John Tharp, we… Continue Reading
DATE: TO BE ANNOUNCED Matthew Blain, son of Douglas Blain, spent his childhood holidays in Runaway Bay on the relaxed north coast of Jamaica. Alongside a life-long passion for the country he developed a keen interest in its most famous… Continue Reading
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