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Documenting the Life of Archibald Monteath

Maureen Warner Lewis in her recent publication “Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian”, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2007, says that the “life story of Anaso, later Archibald John Monteath, is one of the few Caribbean slave narratives to have been so far been recovered.  It encapsulates the experience that converted an Igbo boy from West Africa into a slave on estates along the St. Elizabeth/Westmoreland parish borders on the Caribbean island of Jamaica”.

Some of Warner – Lewis’ extensive research was done at the Jamaica Archives as she was able to substantiate from the records in the institution many of the experiences and events Monteath describes in his remarkable life. For instance, Archibald says that –
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The 1780 Hurricane

 

Hurricanes are a part of life in the Caribbean and over the centuries Jamaica has suffered from a number of devastating hurricanes.  In October we commemorate the 227th anniversary of the disastrous hurricane which literally destroyed the town of Savanna-la-Mar, and presumable the older parish records as well.  The effects of the hurricane are well documented in the records of both the central and local governments.

 
 
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