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The Dead Yard

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by Ian Thomson

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

  St Mary Rural Development Project

  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, Germachew

  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)

  Copyright © 2009 by Ian Thomson

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