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

Published by Yale University Press, 2007. Large, heavy volume. 592pp. In very tidy condition with DW. Fading to spine. Binding fault at gutter of pre-title page where glue is exposed.

Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, this multi-disciplinary volume chronicles the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s.