Jamaica

How the Cold War Killed Cannabis as We Knew It

When Henry Kissinger sought to assert American control of Caribbean bauxite ore reserves, he set off a political dirty war that poisoned the Jamaican interior and destroyed prominent strains of cannabis in the name of marijuana interdiction. 

Bunny Wailer: Reggae Legend who Played with Bob Marley Dies, Aged 73

The star, whose real name was Neville O'Riley Livingston, had been the last surviving member of The Wailers. 

Reggae Legend Toots Hibbert Dies At 77

Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers.

Saving Lives in the Crimean War: “They Are My Sons”

by Bruce Chadwick

A review of Marys Seacole. 

Jamaica offers apology and reparations to Rastafarians

The government of Jamaica took responsibility for a single incident that blamed the island’s total Rastafarian population for the death of eight individuals in a farming community 10 miles east of the second city of Montego Bay 54 years ago.

The Horrible Lesson White Colonists Learned When Slaves Rebelled in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue During the Seven Years’ War

by Trevor Burnard

The lesson: They would be safe as long as they could have absolute power over their slaves. Only it wasn’t true.

Penn historian finishes work on slavery he started researching 40 years ago

Historian Richard Dunn’s study of plantations in Jamaica and Virginia has recently been published.

Harvard scholar makes interactive map showing how slaves fought back

Dr Vincent Brown wants to highlight organisation of rebel slaves and dispel myths.

Cindy Hahamovitch: The Lessons of Belle Glade

Cindy Hahamovitch is a history professor at the College of William & Mary and the author of “No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor .”WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — IN 1965, the secretary of labor, Willard Wirtz, stood under a porch light in Belle Glade, Fla., facing a crowd of guest workers from the Caribbean. Mr. Wirtz could smell sweat and burned sugar cane on their clothes but couldn’t see them, which was how the workers wanted it. Guest workers were often deported and blacklisted for striking or simply questioning whether they had been paid what they were owed.“I would hear their voices — they would ask questions,” Mr. Wirtz recalled, but “they weren’t going to be identified.”