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ix acknowledgments I would like to thank several persons for their kind assistance as I conducted the research for this book. The staffs of the Jamaica Archives; the Institute of Jamaica; the National Archives in College Park, Maryland; the British Archives; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture deserve my gratitude. Nora Strudwich of the Bustamante Museum was particularly helpful. I also want to thank Jobert Bienvenue and Maristela Perez for typing the manuscript. My good friends and colleagues Franklin Knight, Patrick Bryan, Nicole Burrowes-Caserly, and Sean Greene read the entire manuscript and provided me with trenchant criticisms and useful suggestions for its improvement. The manuscript also benefited enormously from the criticisms of the two readers for the University of North Carolina Press. I thank these six scholars for their selfless and priceless contributions to the preparation of this volume. This page intentionally left blank ...

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