Born in Africa, shipped to the West Indies, enslaved in the American colonies, and promised freedom in Colonial Canada: this well-known narrative traces a journey from tropical climates to northern temperate zones, from slavery to freedom. However, in the late eighteenth century…
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In this thesis, I have delved more deeply into a research paper I wrote for Dr. Seodial Frank H. Deena’s graduate course in Caribbean Literature. I have extended my research by providing deeper historical background of the West Indies and the people who were subjugated and bruta…
This study examines three distance education organisations in Jamaica in order to understand their role as contributors to Jamaica's development. The three distance education organisations are: 1. The Ministry of Education Teacher Education Programme. 2. The University of the We…
Since the 1950s, men and women, mainly Rastafari from the West Indies, have moved as repatriates to Shashamane, Ethiopia. This is a spiritually and ideologically oriented journey to the promised land of Ethiopia (Africa) and to the land granted by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Ha…
This thesis investigates the efforts of the West Indian Church to establish and run a fascinating Mission in an area of West Africa already influenced by Islam or traditional religion. It focuses mainly on the Pongas Mission's efforts to spread the Gospel but also discusses its …
Nineteenth-century slaveholders of the Atlantic master class had many reasons to be concerned with the future. In a world ushered in with the aid of the Haitian Revolution, slave revolts in these sensitive times seemed to erupt with increased frequency, leaving greater destructi…