Lucille Mathurin Mair, 'The arrival of black women' in Jamaica Journal (Vol. 9, nos 2 & 3, 1975), p.2.
2.
Edward Kamau Braithwaite, 'Submerged Mothers' in Jamaica Journal (Vol. 9, nos. 2 & 3, 1975), p.49.
3.
See M. Craton, Testing the Chains (Cornell University Press, 1982), pp.336-7.
4.
William Beckford, Remarks Upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica (London , 1788), p. 13.
5.
Richard S. Dunn, 'A Tale of Two Plantations: slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia 1799-1828' in William & Mary Quarterly (3rd Series) (No. 24, 1977), p.54.
6.
Richard Sheridan, Sugar and Slaves: an economic history of the British West Indies ( Baltimore, 1974), pp.257-8.
7.
Particularly during the period of early settlement in Jamaica, which was characterised by smallholdings with fewer slaves and a tendency to import greater numbers of men than women.
8.
R.S. Dunn, op. cit., claims, for example, that 'At Mesopotamia, as was generally the case on West Indian sugar estates, females proved tougher than the males and better able to survive the trauma of slavery' (p.45).
9.
B. Bush'Towards Emancipation: slave women and resistance to coercive labour regimes in the British West Indian colonies (1790-1838)' in Slavery & Abolition (Vol. V, no. 3, 1984), p.223.
10.
L.M. Mair, 'A historical study of women in Jamaica from 1655 to 1844' (unpublished PhD Thesis, University of the West Indies, 1974 ), pp.313-16.
11.
R.S. Sheridan , Doctors and Slaves. A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies (Cambridge , 1985), p.242.
12.
L.M. Mair, The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery ( Kingston, 1975),p7.
13.
Mathew 'Monk' Lewis, Journal of a West Indian Proprietor (London, 1834), p.389.
14.
ibid, p.139.
15.
ibid, p.179.
16.
See L.M. Mair, The Rebel Woman ..., op. cit.
17.
This woman is mentioned by Lewis in his journal (op. cit., p. 183). She is reported to have flown at the overseer 'with the greatest fury, grasped him by the throat [and] cried "Come here! Come here! Let us Dunbar him!"' — a reference to the fate of a Mr Dunbar, the overseer on a neighbouring plantation, who had been murdered by his slaves.
18.
Thomas Thistlewood , Journals (1748- 1786), in M. Craton, op. cit, pp.38-43.
19.
Craton, op. cit
20.
Rev. Henry Coor's evidence in British Sessional Papers, Commons, Report of the Lords of Trade on the Slave Trade, (Vol. 26, 1789).
21.
B. Bush, 'Towards Emancipation .. ', op. cit., p.225.
22.
M. Craton, op. cit., p.44.
23.
B.W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean (John Hopkins University Press, 1984), p.308.
24.
B.W. Higman , 'Household structure and fertility on Jamaican slave plantations: a 19th-century example' inPopulation Studies (Vol. 27, 1973), pp.527-50.
25.
O. Patterson , The Sociology of Slavery ( London, 1967).
26.
Letters from Webb to Barham (1810- 1812), Bodleian Library, Oxford.
27.
M. Lewis, op. cit, p.381
28.
Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (1774), Vol. 2, p.381.
29.
Governor Edward Trelawny, An Essay Concerning Slavery (1746), pp.35-6.
30.
Evidence of Dr Michael Clare House of Lords Report ( 1832) part I, pp.274-5.
31.
Evidence of John Baillie House of Lords Report ( 1832), p.51.
32.
O. Patterson, op. cit, p.106.
33.
R. Sheridan, op. cit, p.339.
34.
M. Lewis, op. cit, p.82.
35.
See Mavis Campbell , 'Marronage in Jamaica', in Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Societies (New York , 1971), p.389.
36.
M. Craton, op. cit, p.129.
37.
ibid., p.132.
38.
E. Long, op. cit, Vol. II, p.445.
39.
Bernard Senior , A Retired Military Officer ( London, 1831), pp.180, 204-7, 212-16.
40.
B. Bush, 'Defiance or submission?: the role of black women in slave resistance in the British Caribbean' in Immigrants and Minorities (Vol. I, no. 1, March 1982).
41.
M. Lewis, op. cit, p.149.
42.
Quasheba, like the name Quashee, is derived from common names found among the Akan peoples of modern Ghana.
43.
O. Patterson, op. cit
44.
For a fuller discussion of Nanny, see M. Craton, op. cit, pp.84-9, and Alan Tuelon, 'Nanny: Maroon chieftainess', in Caribbean Quarterly (Vol. XIX, December 1973), pp20-27.
45.
Joseph J. Williams , The Maroons of Jamaica ( Anthropological Series of the Boston College Graduate School, 1938), p.388.
46.
Philip Thicknesse , Memoirs & Anecdotes ( London, 1788), p.123.
47.
Tuelon, op. cit, p.23.
48.
P. Thicknesse , quoted in R.C. Dallas, History of the Maroons (Vol. I), p.73.
49.
R.C. Dallas, op. cit, p.88.
50.
R.C. Dallas, op. cit, p.110.
51.
E.K. Braithwaite , The Folk Culture of the Slaves of Jamaica (London, New Beacon, 1974), p.13
52.
L.M. Mair, 'The arrival of black women', op. cit., pp.4-5.
