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Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
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Freedom’s Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica’s watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica’s disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People’s National Party.
Palmer describes the ugly underside of British colonialism and details the persecution of Jamaican nationalists. He sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante’s collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica.
Palmer describes the ugly underside of British colonialism and details the persecution of Jamaican nationalists. He sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante’s collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica.
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INDEX
Page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations, maps, and tables.
Act of Emancipation of 1833, 357
Adams, David, 198, 204–5, 262
Advisory Board Regulations Act of 1940, 222–23
Advisory Council. See Trades Union Advisory Council
Africa, 24, 25, 26, 64, 66, 68–70, 89
“Africa for the Africans” (slogan), 24
African Americans, 26, 65
African-descent Jamaicans. See Black Jamaicans; Skin color
Agriculture. See Farms and farmworkers
Agriculture minister (Jamaica), 345, 346
Aitken, P. A. (Madam DeMena), 153
Allan, Harold, 39, 289, 347, 349, 355
Alves, Alexander Bain, 115
Anansi (trickster), 177
Anderson, Oswald E., 77–87;
as Advisory Council member, 153;
on colonial race hatred, 65, 77, 83;
constitutional change and, 304;
critics of, 84–85;
resignation/mass meeting support for, 83;
winning of by-election by, 85, 86
Anglicans, 73–74, 89
Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, 336
Annotto Bay, 33
Antigua, 22
Armitage, James A., 134
Arnett, Vernon, 177–78, 239–40, 257, 258, 259, 299, 326
Artisans’ Union, 115
Ashenheim, Leslie, 230, 232
Ashenheim, Lewis, 108
Aspinall, Mrs. (English resident), 72–73
Assembly. See House of Assembly
Atheism, 348
Atlantic slave trade. See Slavery
Attlee, Clement, 30–31, 277
Attorney general, 15
Augier, Roy, 6
Bahamas, 22, 291
Bailey, Amy, 79, 80, 84
Banana industry, 75, 155, 157, 180;
Bustamante-called general strike and,...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- FREEDOM’S CHILDREN
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, AND MAP
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE: Jamaica in 1938
- TWO: The Labor Rebellion
- THREE: Race and the Colonial Imagination
- FOUR: Looking Back, Moving Forward
- FIVE: Bustamante, Unionism, and the Politics of Performance
- SIX: Bustamante and the Politics of Power
- SEVEN: Challenging Power and Facing the Consequences
- EIGHT: Constitutional Change
- NINE: Party Politics
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX