ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the tours offered at two Jamaican great houses (former plantations)—Rose Hall and Greenwood Great House—which are both located a short distance outside of Montego Bay but solicit and engage tourists in very different ways. Rex argues that Rose Hall, the more popular of the two sites, conceptualizes the tourism imaginary and the legacies of slavery and race in Jamaica in ways that sanitize and even romanticize the historic spectacles of violence that occurred there, while Greenwood Great House, for the most part, rejects the tourism imaginary and confronts the postcolonial realities of slavery and Anglo supremacy directly.
