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System aimed to prevent sequential monogamy and slave relationships and enable the ex-slaves to acquire metropolitan marriage ideal that they partially or and indissolubility. II. In December 1833, the House of Assembly passed. Jamaica Act) which had to carry the Imperial.
Traditional Jamaican Marriage Customs. A traditional wedding in Jamaica typically involved the whole village or community where the couple lived. Relatives of the couple and members of the community all had roles in preparing for the ceremony. Today, modern couples seek help from wedding consultants or planners, but in the past, planning ...
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Mar 5, 2019 · It shows that colour, gender and class intersected in complex ways in ‘marrying light’ and that in most instances cross-colour marriages in Jamaica, like elsewhere, were a trade-off between one high-ranking variable and another.
- Henrice Altink
- 2019
Mar 29, 2006 · Pages 231-253. Abstract This article explains the failure of the Jamaica slaves to reproduce naturally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It argues that the explanation for the failure stemmed...
- Kenneth Morgan
- 2006
Jamaica, testation practices and ideas about legitimacy determined the ways in which land and other property passed from one generation to the next, shaping the economic, social and political landscape of the island.2 This article considers how, in spite of continued and intimate contact between Jamaica's
seventeenth century and the first century of the eighteenth century when white. Jamaica was on the brink of total demographic collapse. The average length of marriage in the 1690s was only seven years and three months with virtually no marriages lasting over ten years.
In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scho...
