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  • Drums in the night
  • Witchcraft ; Obeah
  • The sounds of the drums in the distance tortured her robbing her of her security and of her beloved Tom. Together they had openly mocked the power of the obeah men when they first came to the village, but all that changed when crops began to fail,...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Learning to Blow the Abeng: A Critical Look at Anti-establishment Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Blacks-Race identity-Caribbean Area; Black power-West Indies-History; Caribbean Area-Race relations; Caribbean Area-Politics and government; Rastafarian movement; Workers Party of Jamaica; People's National Party (Jamaica)
  • An examination of the movements in the 1960s and 1970s concerned with eliminating the legacies of racial, economic and class oppression from the colonial experience that continued after political independence.
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Pan-Africanism — Ethical Challenges
  • Pan-Africanism; Haiti-Politics and government; Grenada-Politics and government; South Africa-Politics and government; Jamaica-Social conditions; South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission-History; Truth commissions-Haiti; Truth...
  • This paper features individuals who have been champions of Pan-Africanism and black power empowerment. It looks briefly at the political crisis in Haiti, Grenada, and South Africa and crime and violence in Jamaica. It also examines the factors that...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Reflections on the Rebellion in St. Thomas in the East for today, July 11, 2004.
  • Insurgency-Jamaica-History; Slave insurrections-Jamaica-History-18th century; Jamaica-History-Morant Bay rebellion, 1865-1866;Maroons-Jamaica; Heroes-Jamaica; Jamaica-History
  • The causes and structures of slave revolts in Jamaica are discussed in this article. It also looks into the role of Maroons in slave uprisings. It questions if we can have a non-violent Morant Bay Rebellion today, and says that in order to have...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection

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