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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
'The King of the Eboes'
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People on the island of Jamaica. USC Digital Library. March 22, 1816. A European's account of a thwarted African uprising in Jamaica. ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Igbo Runaways
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Igbo 'runaways' in Jamaica on a page of The Royal Gazette, a 19th c. newspaper. Runaways escaped slavery for freedom. This is from ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
18th c. Ụ̀banị̀ Ìgbò vocabulary
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Ụ̀banị̀ Ìgbò, the Igbo spoken on Bonny Island in today's Rivers State, recorded by the slave trader Captain Hugh Crow from the late ...
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Thomas Thistlewood’s diary
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An entry in Thomas Thistlewood’s diary, a British plantation overseer in Jamaica who eventually became a landowner and owner of enslaved pe...
Saturday, January 20, 2018
The Origin of Red Bones
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Creole Boy with a Moth , 1835, by Julien Hudson (American, 1811–1844); oil on canvas; 29 x 23 inches. ‘Red Bone’, referring to an ethnic...
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