In a historiography that is particularly thin in the post-1865 period,.  The Land We Live In: Jamaica in 1890 provides an important description of and commentary on a society which had, by then experienced more than fifty years of "full freedom" and which was looking towards the twentieth century.  It provides a glimpse of some of the social institutions in the island in the period and gives us some information about the daily lives of the Jamaican people.  It also contributes to the material available on the island, in and of itself and allows the voices of the period to speak about the "land they lived in " around 1890.  This volume provides both scholars and students with valuable primary historical data for further scholarship, and is very informative for the general reader.

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