Adolphe Duperly, “Cornwall Street, Falmouth,” lithograph, 1844. National Library of Jamaica Digital Collection.
Housing, Markets, and Marronage in Colonial Jamaica
by Jenna Mullender, 2026 Phila Chapter SAH Tatum Fellow
Tuesday, September 29, Reception at 6:30 p.m., Talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
at the Merion Barnes on St. Joe’s Campus, (50 Lapsley Lane, Merion, PA)
Free and open to all.
Light refreshments will be served
Please register at info@philachaptersah.org so we’ll have enough seating.
This talk will explore possibilities of self-emancipation from slavery within the landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth century Jamaica. Drawing on historic engravings, architectural code, and other scholarship, it examines how the spatial networks between houses, markets, and plantations both enabled and hindered urban marronage. It will draw on theories of resistance to think about how social dynamics of resistance and solidarity were constituted within this built environment.
Jenna Mullender is pursuing an MS in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in how preservation research can uncover histories of resistance embedded in the built environment, helping us understand the practices that can reshape our landscapes more justly today. She holds a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Directions to the Barnes Arboretum building (50 Lapsley Lane, Merion) at St. Joe’s University: To get to the building, please access Lapsley Lane via City Avenue. Follow Lapsley Lane around to the open iron Arboretum gates and parking lot on your left . You cannot access Lapsley Lane from Latches’s Lane.