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View of Negro Village

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Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
~~Jamaican society at the beginning of the nineteenth century was profoundly divided along racial lines. The central fact was that of slavery. A small white minority held a virtual monopoly on political power and land ownership. Among the island’s population, there were also people categorized as “free black” and...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.311-361
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.023
Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
The aesthetics of the picturesque continually informed visual and verbal representations of the Jamaican landscape, and especially of the plantation, throughout and beyond the period of slavery. The picturesque was a genre of cultured amusements—an aesthetic category based on the idea of the...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.41-61
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.007

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