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Belisario, c1840
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STOP PRESS: check my pages on -
drogher/droguer women, merry-go-rounds, practice dances, and
Christmas lotteries, for some insight into the lives of ordinary
Jamaicans a century and more ago. I hope to add other similar
pages.
'Given the strange power of Jamaica to erase its history . . . '
Jean D'Costa and Barbara Lalla in the Introduction to Voices in Exile, 1989
For more than a decade I have been putting up web sites, chiefly about topics in Jamaican history. Day after day, as I continue to explore Jamaica's history especially, though not exclusively, in the period between 1865 and 1944, I find many aspects of that history that seem to have disappeared - to have been erased, overlooked, forgotten, and even rejected.
I have tried, in the web sites I have created, to provide at least a glimpse of a more extensive view of Jamaica's past than the somewhat blinkered and stereotypical view which has become all too commonly accepted in the last half century. I am now trying to bring the content of my various sites together on one site: we'll see how that works out!
Joy Lumsden, M.A.(Cantab) Ph.D.(U.W.I.)
I have tried, in the web sites I have created, to provide at least a glimpse of a more extensive view of Jamaica's past than the somewhat blinkered and stereotypical view which has become all too commonly accepted in the last half century. I am now trying to bring the content of my various sites together on one site: we'll see how that works out!
Joy Lumsden, M.A.(Cantab) Ph.D.(U.W.I.)
The novelist L P Hartley opened one of his books with the words
'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' So, if you are bothered by words and terms used on this site, please note when the item was written and remember L P Hartley's words! I try to alter written material as little as possible, so that the reader is brought as close as possible to the time in which it was written, with all the different language, thought processes, attitudes and environments involved. I hope you will find the site interesting, instructive, and even entertaining.
'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' So, if you are bothered by words and terms used on this site, please note when the item was written and remember L P Hartley's words! I try to alter written material as little as possible, so that the reader is brought as close as possible to the time in which it was written, with all the different language, thought processes, attitudes and environments involved. I hope you will find the site interesting, instructive, and even entertaining.
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I have tried to be as factually accurate as possible on these pages, but there are certainly errors which need to be corrected. I shall be grateful for information on any such needed corrections. My opinions are another matter, but I have tried to keep them to a minimum any way! jamaica(dot)history(at)outlook(dot)com This is a strictly non-profit, educational site. No copyright infringement is intended. If there are any questions or concerns, please contact me.
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