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title:Voices in Exile : Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
author:D'Costa, Jean.
publisher:University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin:0817303820
print isbn13:9780817303822
ebook isbn13:9780585138961
language:English
subjectCreole dialects, English--Jamaica--Texts.
publication date:1989
lcc:PM7874.J3V65 1989eb
ddc:427/.97292
subject:Creole dialects, English--Jamaica--Texts.
Voices in Exile
Page ii
Planting the sugarcane Reprinted from Richard Brigens West India Scen ery - photo 2
Planting the sugarcane. (Reprinted from Richard Brigens, West India Scen
ery
[London: Jennings, 1840], Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica)
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Voices in Exile
Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Edited by
Jean D'Costa
and
Barbara Lalla
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa and London
Page iv
Copyright 1989
by The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Voices in exile.
Bibliography: p.
1. Creole dialects, EnglishJamaicaTexts.
I. D'Costa, Jean, 1937- . II. Lalla, Barbara, 1949- .
PM7874.J3V65 1989 427.97292 87-13267
ISBN 0-8173-0382-0
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
Page v
To F. G. Cassidy,
whose love of Jamaican Creole
has helped to retrieve the words
of many lost tongues
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1. Pre-Emancipation: The 18th Century
9
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Grace before Rats
9
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Francis Williams, a Double Exile
9
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Franciscus Williams, To... George Haldane, Esq., An Ode
10
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Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor
11
Picture 7
J. B. Moreton, West India Customs and Manners
12
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If Me Want fe Go in a Ebo
12
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Me Know No Law, Me Know No Sin
13
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Tajo! My Mackey Massa!
14
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Polite Conversation
15
Picture 12
Yellow Snake
16
Picture 13
Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons
17
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One Wife Too Many
18
Picture 15
Married without Swear
18
2. Pre-Emancipation: The 19th Century
20
Picture 16
George Ross, Diary
20
Picture 17
The Maroons Defrauded
21
Picture 18
Captain Hugh Crow, Memoirs
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