{"id":45444,"date":"2016-01-28T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45444"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:14:33","slug":"black-death-gore-geographies-and-the-gallows-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45444","title":{"rendered":"Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\/black-geographies-and-the-gallows-in-jamaica\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\" target=\"_blank\">African American Intellectual History Society<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jmjohnso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Marie Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Michigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\/black-geographies-and-the-gallows-in-jamaica\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/du_Simitiere_968_F_19h_Sep_11__2015__2-058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Eugene_du_Simitiere\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Eug\u00e8ne du Simiti\u00e8re<\/a>, ca. 1757-1774<\/small><\/p>\n<p>One evening, on a road in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a>, a soldier belonging to the \u201cMulatto Company\u201d made his evening rounds. He came upon a black man in the woods. The soldier called for his attention. Receiving no answer, he killed him.<\/p>\n<p>Upon closer inspection, the man was identified as a \u201cnew negro\u201d gathering wood to sell in town. Death was not the end for the \u201cnegre nouveau.\u201d Once he was dead, his body was placed in a cage hung from a gallows planted at a busy intersection in town. His body remained \u201cfor all to see\u201d at that crossroads\u2013somewhere between Montgomery\u2019s Corner, near a road named Rockport, and close to One Mile Stone. After two years, he\/it was called \u2018Fortune,\u201d and the black men, women, and children who passed treated the body as a relic, an item with spiritual powers or import&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\/black-geographies-and-the-gallows-in-jamaica\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica African American Intellectual History Society 2015-10-12 Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Pierre Eug\u00e8ne du Simiti\u00e8re, ca. 1757-1774 One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the \u201cMulatto Company\u201d made his evening rounds. He came upon a black man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8],"tags":[20798,20797,80,12878,22842],"class_list":["post-45444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-aaihs","tag-african-american-intellectual-history-society","tag-jamaica","tag-jessica-marie-johnson","tag-pierre-eugene-du-simitiere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45445,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444\/revisions\/45445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}