Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction / Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer 1
Object Lessons
Introduction to Object Lessons Wayne Modest and Tim Barringer 51
1. The Cruickshank Lock, circa 1838 / Wayne Modest 55
2. Table, circa 1830–1840 / John Cross 59
3. A Tread-Mill Scene in Jamaica, 1837 / Diana Paton 61
4. Sligoville with Misson Premises, 1843 / Catherine Hall 63
5. A View of Coke Chapel from the Parade, circa 1846–1847 / James Robertson 67
6. The Ordinance of Baptism / Dianne M. Stewart 69
7. Kidd's New Plan of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854 / Rivke Jaffe
8. Grave of Eighty Rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica / Wayne Modest 77
9. Map Recording of Rebellion of 1865 / Gad Heuman 79
10. The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 / Jennifer Raab 83
11. Newcastle, Jamaica, 1884 / Tim Barringer 85
12. Opening the Railway Line at Porus / James Robertson 89
13. Day School Children, Jamaica / Patrick Bryan 91
14. Wedding Group, Jamaica / Anthony Bogues 95
15. Child's Outdoor Cap. Lace-bark, circa 1850–1861 / Steeve O. Buckridge 97
16. Portrait of a Woman of Chinese Origin, circa 1895–1861 / Patrick Bryan 99
17. Mary Seacole, 1871 / Jan Marsh 103
18. Fatima, circa 1886 / Erica Moiah James 105
19. Selection of Jamaican Wood Samples Made for the 1891 Exhibition / Veerle Poupeye, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, and O'Neil Lawrence 109
20. Illustration of an Obeah Figure, 1893 / Diana Paton 111
21. Castleton Gardens / Krista A.Thompson 115
22. Queen Victoria, 1915 / Petrina Dacres 117
Part I. Making Victorian Subjects
1. State Formation in Victorian Jamaica / Diana Paton 125
2. Victorian Jamaica: The View from the Colonial Office / Gad Heuman 139
3. Liberalism, Colonial Power, Subjectivities, and the Technologies of Pastoral Coloniality: The Jamaican Case / Anthony Bogues 156
4. Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform n the Milroy Report of 1852 / Rivke Jaffe 174
5. Creating Good Colonial Citizens: Industrial Schools and Reformatories in Victorian Jamaica / Shani Roper 190
6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica / Mark Nesbitt 209
7. Victorian Sport in Jamaica, 1863–1909 / Julian Cresser 240
8. Rewriting the Past: Imperial Histories of Antislavery Nation / Catherine Hall 263
Part II. Visual and Material Cultures
9. Land, Labor, Landscape: Views of the Plantation in Victorian Jamaica / Tim Barringer 281
10. The Duperly Family and Photography in Victorian Jamaica / David Boxer 322
11. Noel B. Livingston's Gallery of Illustrious Jamaicans / Gillian Forrester 357
12. Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica / Anna Arabindan-Kesson 395
13. Victorian Furniture in Jamaica / John M. Cross 420
14. Jamacia's Victorian Architectures: 1834–1907 / James Robertson 439
15. Creole Architecture in Victorian Jamaica / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis 474
16. "Keeping Alive Before the People's Eyes This Great Event": Kingston's Queen Victoria Monument / Petrina Dacres 493
17. "A Period of Exhibitions": World's Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica / Wayne Modest 523
Part III. Race, Performance, Ritual
18. "Most Intensely Jamaican": The Rise of Brown Identity in Jamaica / Belinda Edmondson 553
19. "Black Skin, White Mask?": Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901 / Steeve O. Buckridge 577
20. Kumina: A Spiritual Vocabulary of Nationhood in Victorian Jamaica / Dianne M. Stewart 602
21. Jamaican Performance in the Age of Emancipation / Nadia Ellis 622
22. Black Jamaica and the Victorian Musical Imaginary / Daniel T. Neely 641
23. "A Mysterious Murder": Considering Jamaican Victorianism / Faith Smith 658
Contributors 675
Index 685