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Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin - Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay (Paperback)
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Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin - Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay (Paperback)
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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.
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