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Oct 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Frederic G. Cassidy (10 Oct 1907 - 14 Jun 2000), Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer, born 115 years ago today, in Kingston. Founder, Dictionary of American Regional English. Advocate for the #Jamaican language; pioneer of autonomous orthographies for creole languages. Image
1961 Cassidy System, developed specifically for Jamaican, uses a phonemic system that closely reproduces the sound of the language; later adopted and modified by the Jamaican Language Unit (JLU) at the University of the West Indies.
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"Of primary interest in the Frederic G. Cassidy papers are his 1952 sound recordings of everyday Jamaican people. The recordings are itemized and described according to a typed inventory found among the papers. 1/2
2/2 There are partial handwritten notes and transcriptions of some of the recordings as well as a map of Jamaica which Cassidy used in his field work. The papers also contain drafts of articles and conference papers on Jamaican and Creole languages." -Smithsonian Virtual Archives

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The innovation that made Britain the world’s leading iron exporter during the Industrial Revolution was appropriated from an 18th-century #Jamaican foundry. The Cort Process was first developed by 76 Black Jamaican metallurgists at an ironworks near Morant Bay, #Jamaica. Many of… https://t.co/qnSyTNevyltwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Henry Cort, 1780s “father of the iron trade” and “inventor” of the Cort Process which turned scrap metal into valuable wrought iron appropriated the process from a #Jamaican foundry run by Black metallurgists in Morant Bay, #Jamaica. They brought the technology from Africa.
"The #Jamaican ironworks was owned by a white enslaver, John Reeder, who in correspondence described himself as “quite ignorant” of iron manufacturing, noting that the 76 black metallurgists who ran the foundry were 'perfect in every branch of the iron manufactory', and, through… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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168 years ago today, 30 Jul 1854, Chinese fist arrived in Jamaica; 267 indentured labourers on ship “Epsom” to replace Africans after slavery ended. By 1943, 12,394 “Chinese'; 2,818 "China-born", 4,061 "local-born", 5,515 "Chinese coloured" mixed African and Chinese.
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The vast majority of Chinese who came to Jamaica in the 19th and early 20th centuries were Hakka people from Dongguan, Huiyang, and Bao'an in Guangdong province. #Jamaica
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Jul 30, 2022
Many rivers to cross
And it's only my will that keeps me alive

Jimmy Cliff, Legend of Jamaican Music, born James Chambers 78 years ago today on 30 July 1944, in Somerton, St. James. #JimmyCliff #Jamaica
If the rebel in me
Can touch the rebel in you
And the rebel in you
Can touch the rebel in me
And the rebels we be
Is gonna set us free

Jimmy Cliff, Legend of Jamaican Music, born 78 years ago today.
Sitting here in limbo
But I know it won't be long
Sitting here in limbo
Like a bird without a song
Well, they're putting up a resistance
But I know that my faith will lead me on

Jimmy Cliff, Legend of Jamaican Music, born 78 years ago today. #JimmyCliff
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Jul 20, 2022
49 years ago on 18 Jul 1973, US Ambassador to Jamaica Vincent DeRoulet resigned after being declared “persona non grata” by PM Michael Manley. Several controversies in his four years here; most notably that he had made “a deal” with Manley not to intervene in the 1972 elections. Image
TIME Magazine 6 Aug 1973:

OUR MAN IN KINGSTON
During his four years as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, Millionaire Businessman Vincent de Roulet did not exactly keep a low diplomatic profile. He kept his 90-ft. luxury yacht Patrina docked in sunny Kingston harbor. 1/8
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 He had 17 race horses and ran them at the local Caymanas track. In his gray Checker limousine lay a cushion with the inscription: "This is my car and I sit where I please."

A Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler..
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Jul 7, 2022
104 years ago 7 Jul 1918, Fong Sue came home in Ewarton to find girlfriend Caroline Lindo with policeman "Pretty Man" McDonald. Fong &friends beat Pretty Man who ran off, hid in nearby bushes. Rumours that he had been killed led to widespread burning &looting of Chinese shops.1/2
2/2 Chinese shops were looted and burnt in St Catherine, St Ann, St Mary and Clarendon. 1,000 people participated, 452 were arrested, and 300 sentenced to one year at hard labour.
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"1898..'Chinese women are scarce, the Chinaman has always a coloured woman as a concubine &they generally manage to get the best looking girls'..not until 1947 that Chinese were allowed to bring in an annual total quota for the whole island of 20 wives &children." - Victor Chang
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Jul 5, 2022
Khadija 'Bunny' Shaw's 8th minute goal to give Jamaica a 1-0 lead over Mexico is her 52nd in only 37 games for the Reggae Girlz. A remarkable rate of 1.4 goals per game. #JamaicaMexico #BunnyShaw Image
Montero's arm hit the ball. Possible penalty for Jamaica in the 36th minute. Was she in the box? VAR check.
PENALTY!!!!
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