Jamaica in slavery and freedom : history, heritage and culture / edited by Kathleen E.A. Monteith and Glen Richards.

Includes bibliographical references.

Some primary sources for the study of Jamaican history : an introduction to the microform collection of the University of the West Indies Library at Mona / Joan Vacianna -- "Stories" and "histories" in late-seventeenth-century Jamaica / James Robertson -- Early post-emancipation Jamaica : the historiography of plantation culture, 1834-1865 / Carl Campbell --Not a place for whites? Demographic failure and settlement in comparative context : Jamaica, 1655-1780 / Trevor Burnard -- The character of African-Jamaican culture / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Captured shadows, tongue-tied witnesses, "compellants" and the courts : Obya and social control / Anthony Harriott -- Celebrating Christmas in Jamaica, 1865-1920 : from creole carnival to "civilized convention / Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson -- The Jamaica bungalow : whose language? / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- Museum representation of the Taino and cultural power in the Columbian Quincentenary / Sharon Chacko -- "The grand mart of the island" : the economic function of Kingston, Jamaica in the mid-eighteenth century / Trevor Burnard -- Steam for sugar-cane milling : the diffusion of the Boulton and Watt stationary steam engine to the Jamaica sugar industry, 1809-1830 / Veront Satchell -- The labour regimen on Jamaica coffee plantations during slavery / Kathleen E.A. Monteith -- The Afro-Jamaican the internal marketing system : Kingston, 1780-1834 / Lorna Elaine Simmonds -- "To begin the world again" : responses to emancipation at Friendship and Greenwich Estate, Jamaica / B.W. Higman -- From bondage to political office : Blacks and vestry politics in two Jamaican parishes, Kingston and St. David, 1831-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- Land settlement in Jamaica, 1923-1949 / Marleen A. Bartley -- Race, class and labour politics in colonial Jamaica, 1900-1934 / Glen Richards -- Nationalism and Jamaican political thought / Anthony Bogues.