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Re-imagining Public Space: Jamaica's Main Square 1534-2000
How do we write the history of a space? This paper addresses the successive social constructions and reconstructions of an inherited colonial space: the principal square in Jamaica's former capital, Spanish Town. Emancipation Square is one of Spanish Town's two original squares. The town has grown since it was originally laid out as a new capital city for the island in 1534, but it retains its Spanish-chosen site and much of its original ground plan. This square is a re-used space: formally, in that two of its sides are carried over from the original Spanish ground plan of 1534; physically, as it is still surrounded by an architectural display erected in a rich, brutal, sugar colony between 1760 and the 1820s. The result is a highly impressive place shot through with messages whose significance can appear downright alien 45 years after Jamaican Independence. How far do the processes of adjustment to unfamiliar priorities and proportions help to illuminate the priorities of successive regimes?
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Falmouth, Jamaica : architecture as history
Founded in 1769 as a new port town on JamaicaAEs north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in Falmouth are the townhouses and shops of the planters and merchants who benefitted from the wealth of sugar. That same community also built a major Anglican church and a courthouse, both of which still survive and remain in use. In those same years, the town hosted a growing free-black population and this community also left its mark on the historic town. In 1894, Falmouth received an extraordinary gift from the British crown in the form of the Albert George Market, at once a symbol of persistent colonialism, a shelter for the ancient Sunday markets, and a symbol of modernism in the form of its vast cast iron design. Monuments in the city from the twentieth century include an extraordinary round Catholic church and an impressively Modernist school wing. With little investment through the twentieth century, the town was entirely re-conceptualized in the opening years of the twenty-first century with the construction of a vast cruise ship terminal. Spanning from the foundation of the town in 1769 to the opening of the cruise ship terminal in 2008, this book explores the wide range of architecture built by Jamaicans and others in the making of this extraordinary town.
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Perpetual Exile
The despair of exile can be oppressive for those commanded to it. A foreign country, no matter its similarities with one’s own, remains foreign. For Haitian exiles in Kingston, the closeness to Haiti may have eased their adjustment to a new circumstance. But the place was not theirs, and reminders of an unreachable homeland were constant. Each fortnight brought new passenger ships to Kingston’s piers to collect travelers destined for Haitian ports, and each fortnight’s sail reinforced the hurt of those forbidden to return.
Lysius Félicité Salomon understood this pain. The overthrow of Soulouque in 1859 condemned Salomon to long
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Riverdale
The beginning of 1923 found the asylum in a financial crunch, an all-too-familiar situation. Three thousand dollars were needed for the boarding-out department. Even though there were unpaid bills totaling $10,327.32 and the finance committee had sent out appeal letters, the trustees had their legal adviser, Wilson M. Powell, invest twenty-two thousand dollars. The large sum for investment appeared unwise in light of an August visit to the asylum by the trustee Mrs. Garrett du Bois. She indicated that “everything was in splendid condition except the children’s underwear. They were rags.” It was amazing that investments took priority over proper
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