HeyJaredThe Timeline of Jamaica
FiwiRoots, your guide to the heart and soul of Jamaica. We go beyond the beaches to explore the rich history, vibrant culture, and unique geography of the island.
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Black River, Jamaica: Echoes of a Former Glory (opens the original)
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There was a time when Black River was one of Jamaica’s most important towns—a place of ships, warehouses, merchants, government offices, and international trade. Its river carried logwood and other goods from the interior to the sea, while wealth flowed through a system built in large part on the labor of enslaved Africans and their descendants.Then the advantages that made Black River prosper began to disappear. Exports declined. The working waterfront faded. Roads replaced the river as the mai
The Arithmetic of Empire: How Planters Invented Jamaica's Racial Math (opens the original)
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Every time we fill out a form or answer a census, we are asked to check a box. Black. White. Mixed. Today, our choices have been narrowed for us, forcing centuries of rich, complex heritage into broad, oversimplified categories. We have been conditioned to treat these few checkboxes as fixed truths about who we are.But the pendulum used to swing to a much darker extreme. Centuries ago, colonial officials didn't want broad strokes—they obsessed over the exact fractional extent of our ancestry.In
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