Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay - Clinton a Hutton - Books - Ian Randle Publishers - 9789766379063 - September 30, 2015
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Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay

Clinton a Hutton

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Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay

Publisher Marketing: The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and his allies, overwhelmed by colonial firepower and betrayed by Maroons in service to the British Crown, were mercilessly cut down by the elites (local and foreign) who justified their actions based on the continued belief in the subjugation and suppression of the black race by the white race, emancipation notwithstanding. In Colour for Colour Skin for Skin, Clinton Hutton deconstructs the ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and political rationale for the uprising by formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants and its violent suppression by the colonial forces, and articulates its significance in the development of a national black consciousness. This consciousness, and fight for freedom and justice, he argues, has strengthened over periods of Jamaica's short history, evidenced by the emergence of Garveyism and Rastafari, the 1938 labour riots, and articulated in Jamaican popular music and more recently, the resurgence of Revival worship. Using fascinating first-hand accounts of the uprising and its aftermath from the Report of the Royal Commission of 1866 and numerous newspaper reports among other sources, Hutton presents the 'Morant Bay Rebellion' squarely at the forefront of the continuing expression of a national complex in a post colonial society.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 30, 2015
ISBN13 9789766379063
Publishers Ian Randle Publishers
Genre Cultural Region > Caribbean & West Indies
Pages 276
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   408 g

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