The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson

The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica

Ian Thomson

370 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging emotional slow-paced

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Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It bec...

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