London: Brixton; Jamaican gangs; Jewish life in 1930s, 94-5; Ronnie Scott’s club; St Leonard’s Hospital; Somerford Grove Estate; Stoke Newington; Theo Campbell’s music shop; Wanstead Hospital
The Lonely Londoners (Selvon)
Long, Edward
Lord Creator
Lord Invader
Lord Kitchener
Los Angeles
Macaulay, Zachary
Macbeth (Shakespeare; Welles production)
McConnell, Nora
McConnell, Peter
McIntyre, John
McIntyre-Pike, Diana
McIsaac, Peter
McKay, Claude
McMahon, Benjamin
Macmillan, Trevor
McQueen, Steve
Mais, Peter
Mais, Vilma
Major, John
The Making of the West Indies (school primer)
The Man with the Golden Gun (Fleming)
Manchioneal
Mandeville; Astra Country Inn; Ingleside
Manley, Michael: advisers; background; character; in government; and Marley; and Seaga
Manley, Norman Washington
Manley, Rachel
mannish water
Mansingh, Ajai
Mansingh, Laxmi
Maraj, Dinesh
Margaret, Princess
marijuana see ganja
Marley, Bob: album covers; Alpha influence; Clapton cover version; and Island; Jamaican attitude to; museum in Kingston; music and influence; and religion
Marley, Damian
Maroon Wars
Maroons: etymology; marriage; Marshall’s Pen
Martin, Vincent ‘Ivanhoe’
Martin, Winston ‘Sparrow’
Marx, Karl
Masemure sugar estate
Mass Marriage Movement
Massie, Brian
Matalon, Evelyn
Matalon, Isaac ‘Zaccie’
Maxwell, John
Maytals
medical care
Melly, George
Mengistu, President Haile Mariam
mental illness
mento
Metropolitan Coloured People’s Housing Association
Mighty Diamonds
Miles, George
Mill, John Stuart
Minott-Tait, Diana
Minton, John
Mintz, Sidney
Mitchell, Harold
Mitchell, Joni
Mittoo, Jackie
Monroe, Marilyn
Montego Bay
Moonraker (Fleming)
Moore Town
Morant Bay
Morant Bay Rebellion
Morant Point
Morass
Moravian Brethren
Morgan, Anthony
Morgan, Derrick
Morgan, Captain Henry
Morrissey
Ms Dynamite
Mudahy, Patrick
murder: capital punishment; rate; reasons for
music: Chinese record producers; Kumina; overview; Ranglin; see also reggae
Mussolini, Benito
Mutabaruka
‘My Boy Lollipop’ (Millie Small)
N.W.A.
Nanking Massacre
Nanny
Napoleon Bonaparte
National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
Negril
Negro World newspaper
Nettleford, Rex
Nevis
Newcastle (Jamaica)
Newland, Arthur
Newton, John
Nine Night ceremony
Niyabingi
Nock, William
Norwich, Blake
Norwich, Hyacinth
Notorious B.I.G.
Nottingham
novels: Bond; ‘Jamaican Gothic’; Jamaican novelists; Thackeray on Jamaica
Nugent, Lady
Nyerere, Julius
Obama, Barack
obeah
Oberli, Andreas
Ocho Rios
Octopussy (Fleming)
Ogden, Bas
Olivier, Sir Sydney
‘One Love’ peace concert
Pablo, Augustus
Palomino, Gloria
pan-Africanism see Africa
Panama
Papillon (film)
Parkins, Jacqueline
Parkins, Marjorie
Parrent, Jim
passa-passa
passports: cost of British
Pathfinders
Patterson, Hopeton
Paul, Sean
Pentecostalism
People’s National Party (PNP): Brigadista programme; corruption of; encouragement of emigration; foundation; and homosexuality; Manley’s government; and Nettleford; and republicanism; rivalry with JNP; values
Perkins, Wilmot ‘Motty’
Perry, Lee ‘Scratch’
personal security
Pieters, Ron
Pinnacle estate
Pinter, Harold
piracy
PJ see Stewart, Penelope Jane
Plunkett, Don
Plymouth Brethren
PNP see People’s National Party
police: corruption; ineffectuality; interview with DCP Shields; killings by; reputation; roadside checks
politics: clientism; Jamaican attitude to power; links with crime; see also Jamaica Labour Party; People’s National Party; race relations and politics; women
Port Antonio; De Montevin Lodge; Errol Flynn Estate; Trident Hotel
Portland parish: Castle Comfort village; Cornwall Barracks village; Darlingford; geography; Hector’s River; Manchioneal; Maroons in; Moore Town; Tom’s Hope village; see also Port Antonio
Powell, Colin
Powell, Enoch
Power, Father Vincent
Prescott, John
Pringle, Frank
Pringle, June Gay
prisons
Proctor, Dr George
Project Land Lease
prostitution
Pryce, Leonard and Gene
Quakers
Quinn, Anthony
race relations and politics: Black Power movement; Britain; Chinese and black Jamaicans; Creoles; Indians’ view of black Jamaicans; Jamaica; Jamaican hierarchy of skin tones; Maroons; poor whites in the Caribbean; prizing of fair skin; Rodney Riots; USA; see also Rastafarianism
Racial Unity Club
ragga see dancehall
railways
Ranglin, Ernest
rap
Rastafarians: beliefs; Bobo Ashanti; and ganja; and Haile Selassie and Ethiopia; Hindu influence; and Manley; misogyny; in Jamaican society; and Revivalism; and Seaga
Reagan, Ronald
Red Light
‘Redemption Song’ monument
reggae: Britain; etymology and origins; importance; and politics; and sexual politics; and Studio One; take-off; Tamlins; see also Marley, Bob
religion: Maroons; see also Baptists; Catholic Church; Hindus; Islam; Jews; Moravian Brethren; Pentecostalism; Quakers; Rastafarians; Revivalism; Seventh Day Adventists
republicanism
‘Respect’ (Notorious B.I.G.)
Revivalism
Reynolds, Albert
Reynolds, Monty
Rhys, Jean
Richmond Gap
Rio Bueno
Rochester, Father Howard
rocksteady
Rodney, Walter
Rodney Riots
Rolling Stones
Romeo, Max
Ross, Alan
Royackers, Martin
Rubin, Vera
‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’ (Barrett Browning)
Ruskin, John
‘The Russians are Coming’ (Bennett)
Rypinski, Valerie
St Ann parish
Saint Domingue see Haiti
St Elizabeth parish: Black River; Bluefields house and village; geography; poor whites in
St Lucia
&n
bsp; St Mary parish
Saint Patrick’s Foundation
St Thomas parish
St Vincent
Salkey, Andrew
Salmon, Valerie
The Same Song (Israel Vibration)
Saw, Tenor
Scarlett family
science-men
Scotland: Darien colony
Scots Jamaicans
Scott, Ronnie
Seacole, Mary
Seaford, Lord
Seaford Town
Seaga, Edward: background and character; and Cinchona; in government; interest in African culture and religion; and Manley; and Marley; and music industry; reputation
Second World War
Selvon, Sam
Seventh Day Adventists
Seville great house
Seville Nueva
Sewell, William
sex: exploitation of women; prostitution
Sharkey (overseer)
Sharma, Nathan
Sharpe, Samuel
Shaw, George Bernard
Shearer, Hugh
Sheffield
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shields, DCP Mark
shooting
shops
Sierra Leone
Simmonds, Vanita
Simone, Nina
Simpson, ‘Bunny’
Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre
Sizzla
ska
Skatalites
Skempton, Evelyn ‘Skay’
‘Skeng Don’
skinheads
slavery: abolition and emancipation; advantages?; in Africa; at Cinnamon Hill; Falmouth as slave port; history of Jamaican; Kingston slave depot; Lewis’s attitude; Maroons; Middle Passage; modern aftermath; Morant Bay Rebellion; novels about; planter house tourism; poems about; sexual exploitation of slaves; Sharpe’s uprising; slaves’ countries of origin; at Stirling Castle; and sugar industry; tracking down runaways; white
Sligoville
Slimfort, Joanna
Slimfort, Vincent
Sloane, Sir Hans
Small, Millie
Small, Richard
Small, Robin (‘Bongo Jerry’)
Small, Ronald
Smith, Carlton
Smith, M. G.
Smith, Michael ‘Mikey’
Smith, Thelma
Smollett, Tobias
smuggling
Sobers, Gary
social ordering
‘The Song of the Banana Man’ (Jones)
Soul, Ziggy
Southey, Robert
Spanish Town; Ellerslie Pen; history; hospital; mortuary; Railway Pen; St Catherine’s jail; Saint Monica Home for lepers; Tawes Pen
Spencer, Herbert
Spencer, Joseph
Spender, Stephen
Spiderman (fisherman)
Stamp, Lloyd
Stanley, Lorna
Stanton Estates
Sterling, Colonel
Stewart, J.
Stewart, Penelope Jane (PJ)
Stewart, Rod
Sting
Stirling Castle estate
Stitt, Sonny
Stone Haven (Jones)
Stoppi, Maurice
Strummer, Joe
sufferers
sugar industry: history of; Indian labour; postcolonial; and slavery
sunset
The Sure Salvation (Hearne)
Surinam
Sutton, Ann
Sutton, Robert
T.O.K.
Tamarind Hill farm
Tamlins
Tanzania
Taylor, Simon
Taylor
Tekle-Hawariat, Bella
Tell My Horse (Hurston)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
tent meetings
Thackeray, William
Thatcher, Margaret
Third World
Thistlewood, Thomas
Three-Fingered Jack
Thwaites, Ronnie
Tom’s Hope village
Tongs
Toots and the Maytals
Tosh, Peter
tourism; planter house
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Trinidad
Trollope, Anthony
Turner, Mary
‘Two Sevens Clash’ (Culture)
Twyman, Alex and Dorothy
Twyman, Mark
UB40
UNESCO
Union Movement
United Fruit Company
United Nations
United States Peace Corps
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
University College of the West Indies
‘Uptown Top Ranking’ (Althea and Donna)
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
USA: Foot on; investment in Jamaica; Jamaican immigrants; Jamaican imports from; and Jamaican violence; LA riots; list of Jamaican Americans; modern influence in Jamaica; race relations; relations with Bustamante; relations with Manley; relations with Seaga
USAID see US Agency for International Development
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
Victoria, Queen
Voices Under the Window (Hearne)
wages: national minimum
Wailer, Bunny
Wailers see also Marley, Bob
Walsh, Barney
Walsh, Cherie
Walters, George
Watercourse
Watson, Barrington
Waugh, Evelyn
‘We Will Be Lovers’ (Lord Creator and Norma Fraser)
Webb, Father Jim
Welles, Orson
The West Indian (Cumberland)
West Indian Federation
West Indian Gazette
West Indies Records Ltd
Westmoreland parish
wharfingers
White, Ellen G.
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)
Wilberforce, William
Williams, Captain
Williams, Omar
Willis, Pearl
Wilmot, Bobby
Wilson, Cedric
Wilson, Delroy
Wilson, Phensic
Woman and Child (Sizzla)
women: education for colonial white; feminisation of Jamaican culture; as percentage of Jamaican labour force; Manley’s encouragement of; pressure groups; Rastafarian attitude; sexual exploitation
Woolmer, Bob
Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ)
Worthy Park plantation
Wright, Gladwin ‘Gladdy Wax’
Wymore, Patrice
Yap, Dalton
Yap, Justin
Yardies
‘Young, Gifted and Black’ (Bob and Marcia)
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Zong (slave ship)
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