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Cocoa Walk Estate

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Description: Cocoa Walk Estate
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Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
In 1823 Thomas Fowell Buxton declared in the House of Commons that “the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.363-392
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.024
Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
The aesthetics of the picturesque continually informed visual and verbal representations of the Jamaican landscape, and especially of the plantation, throughout and beyond the period of slavery. The picturesque was a genre of cultured amusements—an aesthetic category based on the idea of the...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.41-61
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.007

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