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    1. "Figurative Language in Jamaica Creole."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Pollard,Velma (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1983
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: West Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Carib
    Journal Title Details:
    3 : 24-36

    3. <Our Cause for His Glory: Christianisation and Emancipation in Jamaica, by Shirley C. Gordon> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Phillips,Anthony de Vere (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Caribbean History
    Journal Title Details:
    36(2) : 361-365

    4. <Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance, by Leonard Barrett>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sutherland,Marcia E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July, 1989
    Published:
    Buffalo, NY: Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
    Journal Title Details:
    13(2) : 72-74

    5. A History of Jamaica from its discovery by Christopher Columbus to the present time; including an account of its trade and agriculture; sketches of the manners, habits, and customs of all classes of its inhabitants; and a narrative of the progress of religion and education in the island

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gardner,W. J. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1873
    Published:
    London: Elliot Stock
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    512 p, History of Jamaica written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years.

    6. A New and Exact Account of Jamaica: Wherein the antient and present state of the colony, its importance to Great Britain, laws, trade, manners and religion, together with the most remarkable and curious animals, plants, trees, &c. are described: with a particular account of the sacrifices, libations, &c. At this day in use among the Negroes

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Leslie,Charles, of Jamaica (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid, and sold by him, and other booksellers in town
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Reproduction of original 1739 edition from National Library of Scotland by Gale Cengage Learning., 349 p

    8. An archaeology of Black markets: local ceramics and economies in eighteenth-century Jamaica

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Florida museum of natural history (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Gainesville: University Press of Florida
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    269 p., In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks

    9. Ascent to Mona as Illustrated by a Short History of Jamaican Medical Care: With an Account of the Beginning of the Faculty of Medicine, University of the West Indies

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Golding,John S. R. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1994
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    117 p, Describes the roots of medicine and focuses on the record of health care in Jamaica beginning with their most famous physicians. (Google)