Obi, or, The history of Three-fingered Jack

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Earle,William (Author) and Aravamudan,Srinivas (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2005
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781551116693
    Published:
    Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    1551116693; 9781551116693;
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Jamaica, Fiction, Slavery, and Mansong, Jack, d. 1781
    Notes:
    255 p, "Three-fingered Jack," the protagonist of this 1800 novel, is based on the escaped slave and Jamaican folk hero Jack Mansong, who was believed to have gained his strength from the Afro-Caribbean religion of obeah, or "obi"--P.[4] of cover

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