Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom
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Chapter 3 examines Jamaica in the decades following slave emancipation in the 1830s, when Jamaica was often put forward as exemplifying the calamitous results of a prosperous peasantry. Topics discussed in this chapter include the Jamaica’s sugar industry, slavery, emancipation, colonial economies, slave gardens, the Great Jamaican Rebellion of 1831, and systemic racism and repression.
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Jim Handy
Jim Handy is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He has written extensively on Guatemalan history and more generally on peasant economies, agrarian reform and political economy. He has been president of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which awarded him a Distinguished Fellow recognition in 2015, particularly for his contribution to graduate student training. He has received numerous teaching awards and the J.W. George Ivany Internationalization Award by the University of Saskatchewan.
