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The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907 (Paperback)
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The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907 (Paperback)
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When the Reverend Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described
him as an Englishman. Yet he had lived in England for only the
first 19 years of his life; he spent the next 60 years in Jamaica,
teaching and preaching in the remote western part of the island,
and living mainly in Savanna-la-Mar. Henry Clarke was no obscure
country cleric; he was a politician, a businessman, an enthusiastic
though unsuccessful inventor, an uxorious husband and the father of
eleven children, and he left behind an extraordinary body of
writing, including the six-volume diary on which this biography is
based. His life spans the years between the ending of slavery and
the twentieth-century history of Jamaica. An outsider by colour,
nationality and profession, he grew to love his adopted country and
strove to improve the lot of the Jamaican people. Yet the diaries,
for all their detail, give only passing reference to the world at
large. They are much more concerned with the personal details of
the activities, passions and problems of Henry Clarke himself.
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