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Portland...offers a glimpse into the history of this most beautiful Jamaican parish. Shaped by the heavy hand of Mother Nature, the parish is blessed with outstanding beauty and challenged by remarkable geography, which provided the perfect homeland for the Windward Maroons as they fled the terror of colonial oppression under their spiritual leader of Nanny. The eventual end of slavery in 1838 opened up abandoned sugar plantations to modest opportunities for liberated slaves. Within a generation they were enterprising banana farmers turning Portland into the Banana Capital of the World. Tourism soon followed as did celebrities, including Errol Flynn.
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Jamaica, history, Portland parish, banana industry, MaroonsPeople
Errol FlynnPlaces
Port Antonio, Moore Town, Nanny Town, Frenchman's CoveTimes
1500-1960Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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PORTLAND: THE OTHER JAMAICA Tales of Dreamers, Schemers and Crusaders
2010, Ken Roueche
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PORTLAND: THE OTHER JAMAICA: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers and Crusaders
2010, Ken Roueche
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0981076114 9780981076119
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Feedback?January 13, 2012 | Edited by 96.54.182.123 | Edited without comment. |
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April 21, 2011 | Edited by Ken Roueche | place of publication, content, physical object |
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