In 19th-century Jamaica when everyone heard the cry on Christmas Day, “Jonkonnu a come!” it meant the pageantry and festival was about to begin in the town squares. Artist Isaac Mendes Belisario ...

Edward Warren was a young doctor in the early 1850s when he first witnessed it. Later in life, he described what he saw at Christmastime among the enslaved population at Somerset Place, one of the ...

Drum beats sounded on Market Street Saturday morning as a noisy, joyful crowd of costumed revelers danced and sang their way around the block. About 150 people gathered for the second annual Jonkonnu ...