She is the “White Witch,” a 19th century plantation owner who murdered three of her husbands and terrorized the slaves of Rose Hall before she was killed in retribution, condemning her spirit ...

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has revealed that one of his ancestors owned enslaved people on a Jamaican plantation and received compensation from the British government upon the ...

The plantation owners and white population lived in fear of rebellions. Rebellions usually failed for the same reasons: European militia forces had access to firearms.

Elizabeth was the only child of William Gibbons, a Jamaican plantation owner. When she was about 16 she married James Lawes, who was probably the most eligible bachelor on the island at that time.

Her parents, who immigrated to London from Jamaica in the late 1940s, never talked about it. Levy couldn't bear to watch Roots when it was broadcast, and never read other black British novelists ...