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The Dead Yard

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by Ian Thomson


  Ethnic minorities

  Chen, Ray, The Shopkeepers: Commemorating 150 years of the Chinese in Jamaica 1854-2004 (Kingston, Periwinkle Publishers, 2005); Erickson, Edgar, ‘The Introduction of East Indian Coolies into the British West Indies’, Journal of Modern History, VI, 2, 1934; Henriques, Fernando, Family and Colour in Jamaica (London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953); Karras, Alan L, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake 1740-1800 (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1992); Mansingh, Laxmi and Mansingh, Ajai, ‘Indian Heritage in Jamaica’, Jamaica Journal, X, 2, 3, 4, 1976, and Home Away from Home: 150 years of Indian presence in Jamaica 1845-1995 (Kingston, Ian Randle Publications, 1999); Ranston, Jackie, The Lindo Legacy (London, Toucan Books, 2000); Sardar, Ziauddin, Balti Britain: A journey through the British Asian experience (London, Granta, 2008); Stoppi, Maurice, Hope Road (New York, TFG Press, 2004).

  Fiction

  Berry, James, Windrush Songs (Tarset, Bloodaxe Books, 2007); Cezair-Thompson, Margaret, The Pirate’s Daughter (London, Headline, 2007); Cumberland, Richard, ‘The West Indian: A Comedy in Five Acts’, in The London Stage: A collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and interludes, vol. I (London, Sherwood and Jones, 1830); Ellis, Garfield, For Nothing At All (Oxford, Macmillan Caribbean, 2005); Hughes, Richard, A High Wind in Jamaica (London, The Harvill Press, 1995); Johnson, Linton Kwesi, Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected poems (London, Penguin Books, 2002); Jones, Evan, Stone Haven (London, Heinemann, 1993); Kennaway, Guy, One People (Edinburgh, Payback Press, 1997); Miller, Kei, The Same Earth (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008); Ross, Jacob, Pynter Bender, (London, Fourth Estate, 2008); Thelwell, Michael, The Harder They Come (London, Pluto Press, 1980).

  Index

  Aarons, Charles

  abengs

  Abyssinians (group)

  Africa: dreams of return to; and Jamaican culture; Maroon sense of African identity; as place of ancestral shame; slavery; see also Ethiopia

  agriculture, see also coffee; sugar industry

  AIDS see HIV/AIDS

  Aitken, Laurel

  ‘Al Capone’ (Prince Buster)

  Albert, Monsignor Richard

  Allen, Madge

  Althea and Donna

  Amin

  Amis, Martin

  Anansi stories

  Andy, Bob

  Andy, Horace

  Angola

  Annotto Bay

  Antigua

  Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

  Arthur’s Seat

  Asbroeck, Herman van

  Ascension Trust

  Ashanti

  Ashwood, Amy

  Attenborough, David

  Attlee, Mary

  Augier, Roy

  Baker, Lorenzo Dow

  Balcarres, Earl of

  Banbury, T.

  Banton, Buju

  Baptists

  Barbados

  Barber, Francis

  Barrett, Aston ‘Family Man’

  Barrett, Carlton ‘Carly’

  Barrett, Edward (18th century)

  Barrett, Edward (19th century)

  Barrett Town

  bauxite

  Beaton, Cecil

  Beckett, Harry

  Beckford, William

  Bedward, Alexander

  Bedwardite Movement

  Beenie Man

  Beeston, Sir William

  Beginner, Lord

  Belafonte, Harry

  Bellevue

  Beng, Chacha

  Benjamin, Arthur

  Bennett, Headley

  Bennett, Val

  Bentinck, Tim

  Berbick, Trevor

  Berlin (Jamaica)

  Bernard, Isaac

  Bernard, Winston ‘Bobcat’

  Berry, James

  Besson, Jean

  Bethel Town

  Betton, Ann

  Betton, Bob

  Bilby, Kenneth M.

  birds

  Birmingham

  Black and White Social Club

  Black Power (Carmichael and Hamilton)

  Black Power movement

  Black River (town and river)

  Black Star Line

  Black Uhuru

  Blackwell, Blanche

  Blackwell, Chris

  Blagrove, Peter and Alice

  Blagrove family

  Blair, Tony

  Blake, William

  Blue Mountains

  Bluefields house

  Bluefields village

  Bogle, Clovis

  Bogle, Paul

  Bolan, Marc

  Bond books and films

  Boothe, Ken

  Bounty Killer

  Braithwaite, Junior

  Brawne, Fanny

  Bridges, Revd George Wilson

  Britain: 1958 riots; buses; colonial legacy to Jamaica; Jamaican immigrants; and Jamaican independence; Jamaican influence on culture; Jamaican nostalgia for; Jamaican rule and colonialism; Maroons’ anglophilia; modern influence in Jamaica; NHS; postcolonial links with Jamaica; race relations; and slavery; see also London

  British Commonwealth

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

  Bull Bay

  Burnin’ (Bob Marley and the Wailers)

  Burning Spear

  Burns, Robert

  buses: Jamaica, London

  Bushman

  Bustamante, Alexander

  Bustamante Industrial Trade Union

  Buster, Prince

  butterflies

  Byles, Junior

  Byron, George Gordon Lord

  Calabash Literary Festival

  ‘Call the Hearse’ (Bushman)

  Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD)

  Campbell, Janice

  Campbell, Leeroy James

  Canada

  capital punishment

  Cardiff Hall

  Cargill, Morris

  Caribbean Artists Movement

  Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carmichael, Stokely

  Cash, Johnny

  Casino Royale (Fleming)

  Castle Comfort village

  Castro, Fidel

  Catch a Fire (Bob Marley and the Wailers)

  Catholic Church

  CBI see Caribbean Basin Initiative

  Chamberlain, Leslie

  Champagnie, Leeka

  Charles I, King

  Charles, Prince

  Charles, Ray

  Chattersingh, Mr

  Chester Castle

  Chevannes, Barry

  Chicago

  childcare

  Chin, Ilene and Winston

  Chin, Michael Lee

  Chin, Vincent ‘Randy’

  China: Japanese invasion

  Chinese Benevolent Society

  Chinese Jamaicans

  Chong, Sheila

  Chong Sang, George

  Christian, Charlie

  Christianity see Baptists; Catholic Church; Moravian Brethren; Pentecostalism; Quakers; Revivalism; Seventh Day Adventists

  Churchill, Winston

  CIA

  cinchona

  Cinchona Gardens

  Cinnamon Hill

  Clapton, Eric

  Clarke, Billy

  Clarke, Edith

  Clarke, Robert

  Clarkson, Thomas

  Clash

  Cliff, Jimmy

  Coburn, James

  cocaine

  Cochrane, Kelso

  Codner, Lloyd

  coffee

  Coleyville

  Colombia

  colonialism see Britain

  Columbus, Christopher

  Columbus, Diego

  Comitas, Lambros

  Cooke, Sir Howard

  Cooke, Ian

  Cooper, Laura Facey

  Cooper, Michael ‘Ibo’

  Coore, Stephen ‘Cat’

  Cornwall Barracks village

  Cotton Tre
e

  cotton trees

  Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

  Cousins, Linval

  Cousins, Lorenzo ‘Larry’

  Coward, Noel

  Creoles

  cricket

  ‘Cricket, Lovely Cricket’ (Lord Kitchener)

  crime: causes; Jamaican criminals deported home; punishments; see also legal and justice system; murder

  Crimean War

  crocodiles

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Crum-Ewing, Robin

  Cuba: Bustamante’s attitude; homophobia; Jamaican proximity; Manley’s support for; and Obama; and PNP Brigadista programme

  Culture

  Cumberland, Richard

  Cummings, Lloyd

  Cushing, Peter

  dancehall (ragga)

  dancehallese

  Darien

  Darlingford

  Darwin, Charles

  Davis, Captain John

  Dawes, Neville

  death: funerary customs

  Deep Purple

  Dekker, Desmond

  Desnoes, Joanie

  Desulmé, Myrtha

  Dickens, Charles

  Dillon, Leonard ‘Sparrow’

  ‘Do the Reggay’ (Toots and the Maytals)

  Dodd, Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’

  Dodd, Norma

  domestic servants

  dominoes

  Donnell, Adaina

  Dr Dre

  Dr No (Fleming)

  Dr No (film)

  Dragonaires

  Drax Hall sugar estate

  dreadlocks

  drugs: and crime; ganja; smuggling; Drummond, Don

  Duncker, Patricia

  Duncker, Sheila

  Dunham, Katherine

  Dunphy, Hugh

  Dunphy, Ouida

  Duvalier, Papa Doc

  Dylan, Bob

  Eden, Anthony

  Edgar Broughton Band

  education; musical see also literacy

  Edwards, Prince Emmanuel

  Elephant Man

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  Elizabeth, Queen, Queen Mother

  Ellis, Alton

  Ellis, Garfield

  emigration: Britain; Panama; returnees; USA

  Epworth district

  Eric Dean’s Orchestra

  Escalante, HMS

  Ethiopia; see also Haile Selassie, King Emperor

  Ethiopian Coptic Church of Zion

  Ethiopian Salvation Society

  Ethiopians (group)

  evangelism

  Evans, David

  Evelyn, John

  ‘Everything Crash’ (Ethiopians)

  Eyre, Edward

  Facey, Maurice

  Facey, Valerie

  Fairweather, Helen

  Fairweather, James

  Fairweather, Roy

  Falmouth; Barrett House

  families

  Fanti

  Farrakhan, Louis

  Father and Son (Gosse)

  Fatherless Crew

  Ferguson, ‘Judge’

  Finch, Peter

  Firefly

  First Africa Corps

  Fleming, Ann

  Fleming, Ian: attitude to hybridity; characters; Gothicism; Jamaican presence in novels; life; and Walsh

  Fleming, Peter

  Flynn, Errol: habits; Jamaican properties; lovers

  folklore and superstitions: Anansi stories; cotton trees

  Foot, Sir Hugh

  Foot, Isaac

  Foot, Michael

  Foot, Oliver

  For Nothing At All (Ellis)

  For Your Eyes Only (Fleming)

  Foxy’s International

  Fraser, Norma

  Friesen, Father Francis

  funerals and funerary customs

  Fyffes banana company

  gambling and gaming

  ganja

  Gardner, Olga

  Garvey, Marcus: Bobo Ashanti attitude to; first burial place; on Haile Selassie; and Maroons; and Negro World; overview; prophecies; repatriation of remains; return to Jamaica; and skin lightening

  George III, King

  George V, King

  Georgia farm

  German Jamaicans

  Gladdy and the Groove Syndicate

  Golden Grove

  Goldeneye

  Goldfinger (Fleming)

  Golding, Bruce

  Golding, Sir John

  Gomes, Carolyn

  Gordon, George

  Goretti, Sister Maria

  Gosse, Edmund

  Gosse, Philip

  Graham, Aston

  Graham, Lancel

  Grant, Esther

  Gray, Henry

  Green Bay Massacre

  Green Castle estate

  Green Hill coffee farm

  Greene, Graham

  Greene, Richard

  Greenwood

  Grenada

  Griffiths, Marcia

  guard dogs

  Guevara, Che

  guns: Manley’s measures against; sources

  ‘Guns of Brixton’ (Clash)

  Guyana

  Haile Selassie, King Emperor: attitude to Rastafarians; colonial British attitude to; Garvey on feudalism; and Manley; and Mussolini’s invasion; Rastafarian attitude to; and slavery; state visit to Jamaica

  Hailey, Benita

  Haiti (formerly Saint Domingue)

  Hall, Dr Horace

  Hamilton, Charles V.

  Hamilton, Sheila

  The Harder They Come (film)

  ‘The Harder They Come’ (Cliff)

  Harlem Renaissance

  Harriott, Joe

  Hart, Richard

  Headley, Melford

  Hearne, John

  Hearne, Leeta

  Hector’s River

  Henriques, Ainsley

  Henriques, Emanuel ‘Manny’

  Henry, Claudius

  Henry, Lena ‘Dimple’

  Henry, Ronald

  Henzell, Justine

  Henzell, Perry

  Henzell, Sally

  Heptones

  Hepworth family

  A High Wind in Jamaica (film)

  Hinds, Donald

  Hindus

  Hitler, Adolf

  HIV/AIDS

  Holland Bay

  homosexuality

  Honeygan, Havelyn

  Hope, Bun Man

  Hope Road (Stoppi)

  Hordley

  Hosay

  Howell, Leonard Percival

  Hudson, Zede and Millicent

  Huggins, Molly

  Huntley, Eric

  Hurston, Zora Neale

  Huxley, Thomas

  Hyam, Lina

  ‘I Don’t Want To See You Cry’ (Andy)

  ‘I’ve Got To Go Back Home’ (Andy)

  In the Light (Andy)

  ‘Independent Jamaica’ (Lord Creator)

  Indian Jamaicans

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Isaac, Les

  Islam

  Island Records see also Blackwell, Chris

  Israel Vibration

  Itopia

  Jackson, Horace

  Jagger, Mick

  ‘Jamaica’ (Coward)

  Jamaica and Jamaicans: 1938 riots; 1944 election; 1976 election; colonial legacy; ethnic origins; etymology; history; influence abroad; Manley’s government; nationalism and independence; postcolonial government and politics; Seaga’s government; Shearer’s government; State of Emergency (1976)

  Jamaica Labour Party (JLP): and 1944 election; bribery and corruption; foundation; Green Bay Massacre; and homosexuality; plots against Manley; and republicanism; rivalry with PNP; Seaga’s government; Shearer’s government

  Jamaican Coffee Board

  Jamaicans for Justice

  James II, King

  James, Jimmy

  James, Marlon

  James, Zimroy ‘Zim’ and Chrisida

 
; Japan: invasion of China

  jazz

  Jefferson, Andy

  Jefferson, Mark

  Jesuits

  Jews

  Jimmy James and the Vagabonds

  JLP see Jamaica Labour Party

  John, Augustus

  John Crowe’s Devil (James)

  Johnson, Linton Kwesi

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Dr Samuel

  Johnston, Denzil

  Jones, Claudia

  Jones, Evan

  Jones, Gloria

  Jones, Grace

  Jones, Ken

  Jones, Mick

  Jones, Richard

  Journey to an Illusion (Hinds)

  justice system see legal and justice system

  Kaempfert, Bert

  Kingsley, Charles

  Kingston: Alpha Boys’ School; anti-Chinese riots; August Town; Backtu; buses; Chinatown; Chinese Benevolent Society HQ; Coronation Market; as drug smuggling hub; Duke Street synagogue; financial district; Hagley Park Road Hindu Temple; Gemini nightclub; government housing estates; Grants Pen; Gun Court detention centre; Hanna’s Betta Buy; Hannah Town; Hanover Street; history; Hunts Bay Jewish cemetery; Joy Town Learning Centre; Mandarin restaurant; Nuttall Hospital; Operation Restoration; Orange Street; overview; Patrick City; Port Bustamante container terminal; Portmore; Princess Peace Gardens; rail station; Red Stripe brewery; Rema; Riverton City; rural migration to; St Anne’s church; St George’s Jesuit College; Seventh Street; slave depot and slavery; Spanish Town Road; Studio One; Supreme Court; Tivoli Gardens; traffic congestion; Trench Town; Victoria Jubilee Hospital; Wolmer’s Girls School

  Kinkead, Cookie

  Kinkead, Dick

  Kissinger, Henry

  Knibb, William

  Koestler, Arthur

  Kong, Leslie

  Kool DJ Herc

  Kray brothers

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kumina

  Lamming, George

  Lamont, Marjorie

  land ownership

  Langford, Cecil

  Langford, Mary

  language: dancehallese; Jamaican admiration for verbal dexterity; Jamaicans and aitches; Maroons; patwa

  Lee, Byron

  legal and justice system: under British rule; capital punishment; inoperability; Jamaican current; mob vengeance; prisons punishments; wrongful acquittals; see also police

  leprosy

  Levy, Earl

  Lewis, Matthew ‘Monk’

  Lichfield, Patrick

  lighthouses

  Lindo, Alexandre

  Lindo, Louis

  Lindo, Myra

  literacy

  literature see novels; poetry

  Little, Kenneth

  Livingstone, ‘Ras Dizzy’

 

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