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Advertisement for an island-wide John Canoe competition

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Description: Advertisement for an island-wide John Canoe competition

TitleAdvertisement for an island-wide John Canoe competition

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1951

Creation date (description)Daily Gleaner, 9 October 1951

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsMasqueradesJonkonnu (Festival)Art, Jamaican

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More Than Met the Eye: African-Jamaican Festivities in the Time of Belisario

Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

Jamaica hangs in a nervous state of suspension. It is the mid-1830s. The abolitionists have triumphed, and slavery is on the way out. Although the colony no longer seems vulnerable to massive revolts like the “Christmas Uprising” that shook the island at the beginning of the decade, a definite edginess remains. Emancipation was declared in 1834, but many of the enslaved have yet to be...

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PublisherYale Center for British Art

Copyright© Yale University, 2007

Related print edition pages: pp.121-133

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18631&redirecttoanchor=40727

Chapter subject tags:Art, JamaicanJamaica--Civilization--African influencesJonkonnu (Festival)Masquerades--Caribbean Area--HistoryAfro-Caribbean musicBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849

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