Hazel Bennett is a former head of the Department of Library Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Honour the Ancestors
p. 1
On claiming our great heritage
p. 8
Africa, the original homeland
p. 17
From a colonial to a world perspective
p. 30
The Asians colonise America and the Caribbean
p. 42
Europe: Explorer, coloniser and slave master
p. 51
Spanish Jamaica
p. 63
Two Jamaicas emerge
p. 77
Profits versus human rights
p. 88
The beginning of the African diaspora
p. 99
The Atlantic Slave Trade
p. 116
The African-American liberation wars, 1660-1739
p. 128
The African-Jamaican liberation wars, 1650-1800
p. 133
The sugar estate: Bastion of white power
p. 150
Pens, provision grounds and higglers
p. 163
Into a new age
p. 176
Challenge and response, 1760-1830
p. 191
The primacy of freedom
p. 200
Rebellion and emancipation
p. 212
A home of their own
p. 229
Towards political liberty
p. 246
The people betrayed and vindicated
p. 263
Robert Love points the way
p. 281
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, 1887-1940
p. 292
Building a new society: People from India, China and the Middle East
p. 316
Day da light, oh
p. 336
The birth of a national consciousness, 1920-44
p. 346
The founders of the nation: Marcus Garvey, Alexander Bustamante, Norman Manley
p. 362
From colony to nation: Political progress and economic growth
p. 370
Culture and nationhood
p. 389
Select Bibliography
p. 412
Index of Names
p. 420
General Index
p. 425
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