Full Description
Hamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation. Though the novel is sympathetic to white slaveholders and hostile to anti-slavery missionaries, it presents a complex picture of the culture and resistance of the island's black majority. Hamel, the spiritual leader of the rebels, becomes more and more central to the story, and is a surprisingly powerful and ultimately ambiguous figure.
This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by Kamau Brathwaite, as well as a critical introduction and appendices. The extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors' and travellers' descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.
Contents
Foreward
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Hamel, the Obeah Man
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
From Westminster Review (April 1827)
From London Magazine (June 1827)
From The Atlas (8 April 1827)
From The Scotsman (21 April 1827)
Appendix B: British and White Creole Views of Jamaica
From Matthew Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)
From Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica (1826)
From Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica (1828)
Appendix C: Insurrections
From Joshua Bryant, Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara (1824)
From The Missionary Smith (1824)
From Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, "Copy of All Judicial Proceedings Relative to the Trial and Punishment of Rebels, or Alleged Rebels, in the Island of Jamaica, Since the 1st of January 1823" (1825)
Appendix D: The Debate Over Slavery
From Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (1824)
From William Wilberforce, An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire (1823)
From George Wilson Bridges, A Voice from Jamaica (1823)
From James M'Queen, The West India Colonies (1824)
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