Defining Jamaica Sloops: A Preliminary Model for Identifying an Abstract Concept |
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Authors: | Amanda M Evans |
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Institution: | (1) Tesla Offshore, LLC., 36499 Perkins Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70769, USA |
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Abstract: | Jamaica sloops were vernacular watercraft designed, built, and utilized by Caribbean colonists beginning in the late-17th
century. Despite their popularity, no design or construction records or even a specific definition of their form survive,
and many sources simply describe them as an early version of the Bermuda sloop. Vernacular Jamaica sloops were a unique adaptation
by English colonists to combat the effects of piracy, and their design was specific to the economic, geographic, and political
circumstances of colonial Jamaica. This article proposes a set of characteristics that can be used to define vernacular Jamaica
sloops, firstly to distinguish them from the eighteenth-century naval Jamaica-class sloops but also to better understand them
as a social response to external stimuli within the complex relationship between maritime economy, piracy and colonial control
executed through the navy. |
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Keywords: | Jamaica sloop Piracy Technological adaptation Caribbean Vernacular shipbuilding |
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