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Detained: 283 days in Jamaica's detention camp, struggling for freedom, justice, and human rights!

Front cover photograph shows a bare-chested Afro-Caribbean man behind prison bars, gripping the bars and looking off into distance.

1977

Human rights in Jamaica

Front cover photograph shows an Afro-Caribbean police officer beside a motorcycle.

1986

Crime and punishment in the Caribbean

Front cover illustration depicts prison bars and a setting sun.

1980

Freedomways A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement (Volume 4, No. 3)

The front cover of this issue of the periodical has a painting of a woman in church titled "Sunday Morning", and the back cover has a lithograph titled "Ronnie", a portrait of a boy.

1964

Children of Caliban: miscegenation

1974

Conflict and solidarity in a Guianese plantation

1963

Sugar and society in the Caribbean: an economic history of Cuban agriculture

Jacket front photograph shows pampas grass blowing in the wind.

1964

A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905

Front cover image is a detail of the photograph "Water Street looking north", a street scene in Georgetown, British Guiana (Guyana).

1981

A history of trade unionism in Guyana, 1900 to 1961

1966

The Caribbean, the genesis of a fragmented nationalism

1978

Ideas and illustrations in economic history

1964

The piece of fire: and other Haitian tales

Front cover illustration shows a boy playing a drum, children riding a donkey, a woman carrying a basket of fruit on her head, and a number of other animals. A shining sun is at the top left-hand corner.

1964

Haitian Creole: grammar, texts, vocabulary (Vol. 55, No. 2, Part 2)

1953

Mirror, mirror: identity, race, and protest in Jamaica

Book jacket is a shiny silver color, in imitation of a mirror.

1970

The capitals of Jamaica: Spanish Town, Kingston, Port Royal

Front cover illustration shows a view of Harbour and King Streeets, Kingston, Jamaica, about 1825.

1955

The West Indies and their future

Jacket front illustration is a map of the Caribbean, with names provided for the larger islands.

1961

Up from poverty

1976

North of south: an African journey

A photograph of the author, Shiva Naipaul, is on the jacket back flap.

1978

Too much to tell

A photograph of the author, Molly Huggins, is on the jacket back.

1967

Danny Jones

Cover illustration shows young people walking along a sidewalk in London.

1980

Jamaica pocomania: and other poems

An outline map of Jamaica is on the back cover.

1969

The eye of the storm

Jacket front illustration shows the upper body of a mixed race female figure in the foreground. In the background is a male figure and a view of a harbor, sailboats and hills. A photograph of the author, John Hearne, is on the jacket back.

1957

In the castle of my skin (Ace Books)

Man seated, smoking. Behind him a woman wrapped in a sheet stands in front of a vanity.

1960

Islands

Jacket front has a Haitian veve symbol on the right-hand side. Photograph of author Kamau (Edward Kamau) Brathwaite on jacket back flap.

1969

Caribbean plays. Volume two

Front cover image shows a shirtless young man dancing; a bongo drum is to his left, with reverberations issuing from it.

1965

Response: a course in narrative comprehension and composition for Caribbean secondary schools

Front cover has photographs of the faces of three children.

1969

Nine West Indian poets: an anthology for the CXC English examination

Front cover image shows a large block style number 9 with the words "West Indian Poets" over the upper opening of the numeral.

1980

The Caribbean poem: an anthology of 50 Caribbean voices

1976

New planet: anthology of modern Caribbean writing

Front cover illustration is of a stylized yellow sun with an Eye of Horus at its center, and red rays extending downwards.

1978

Caribbean essays: an anthology

A photograph of Andrew Salkey, editor of this volume, is on the back cover.

1973

Caribbean panorama: an anthology from and about the English-speaking Caribbean with introduction, study questions, biographies, and suggestions for further reading

Cover illustration shows sky, sea, an island, a palm tree and a compass.

1999

Songs of my seasons

Front cover illustration is a waterfront landscape looking out over an open expanse of water towards a small island. A photograph of the author, poet Neville Johnston, is on the back cover.

1972

The Black Man of Shadwell: four stories

Book jacket illustration shows a Black man walking on a town street with buildings and hooded figures in the shadows next to him and ship masts visible in the distance behind him. A photograph of the author, Chris Searle, is on the back flap.

1976

To Sir, with love

The front cover illustration depicts a number of students seated at desks in a classroom. A photograph of the author, E. R. Braithwaite, is on the jacket back.

1959

The poetry of Nicolas Guillen: an introduction

A close-up photograph of Nicolás Guillén's face is on the front cover.

1976

Caribbean literature: an anthology

Jacket illustration is an impressionistic rendering of sky, sun, water, and beach.

1966

The theory and practice of Creole grammar

The front cover illustration includes landscape elements and a sun.

1969

The sun's eye: West Indian writing for young readers

Front cover illustration shows a large circular sun above water, with three vertical elements.

1968

Jason Whyte, Jamaican

Cover illustration shows a young man standing up in a rowboat and gesturing with outstretched arms to attract attention from a passing ship.

1973

Buddy Lindo: folk-songs of Trinidad and Tobago, for unison voices and guitar

Front cover has an image of the sun with radiating rays.

1973

Malik accused, murder

Front cover illustration is a portrait of Michael Abdul Malik.

1972

Immigration into the West Indies in the 19th century

1971

Fight for freedom

The book cover illustration is a reproduction of "The Attack of the Rebels on Montpelier Old Works Estate", by Adolphe Duperly, 1833. Provided courtesy National Library of Jamaica.

1987

Slaves who abolished slavery. Volume 2, Blacks in Rebellion

The front cover has a photograph of the 1967 bronze sculpture "The Unknown Maroon of Saint-Domingue" (Le Marron Inconnu) by Albert Mangonès, which depicts a fugitive slave blowing on a conch shell. There is a photograph of the author, Richard Hart, on the back cover.

1980