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Unit 6
Grades 9-10
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The Brown Middle Class: Colorism's Ladder After Emancipation

After British emancipation in 1834-38 (covered in Unit 5), Jamaica and other Anglophone Caribbean colonies did not become racially egalitarian societies. Colonial administrations and the plantation elite constructed a graduated social hierarchy that placed white colonists at the…

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