The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750-1890

by Steeve O. Buckridge (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $60.65

  his book is a study of how African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of resistance to slavery and accommodation to white culture in pre and post-emancipation society. Africans brought aspects of their culture such as folklore, music, language, religion and dress with them to the Americas.