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Title
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.
Abstract
The editors, Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith, make clear from the outset that Jamaica is a far more complex country that deserves more than these over-simplistic generalisations. For example, in the section on "Apprenticeship" in Jamaica, the system which briefly succeeded slavery between 1834 and 1838, Diana Paton's own work (from a separate publication) is combined with the recollections of an "apprentice" from the 1830s (pp. 147-52). Jamaica might be a small island, but it has a vast, rich and complicated history.