As anyone who goes knows, Jamaica has soul. Amid a sea of islands that tourism has changed and sometimes overtaken, Jamaica remains distinctly its own place, its soul potently intact. It came at an extraordinary price: from, largely, the suffering of a century’s worth of slaves, imported starting in the 1600s, and the frustrating history that followed. Eventually the populace gained its freedom, with abolition in 1838, but it took another century and then some for the country to win control of i...