Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin : Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Liberty of Person Liberty of Land': -- The Morant Bay Rebellion - its Socio-Economic and Political Bases -- 'It is Money They [Planters] Want, and Not Labour': -- Free Trade, Cane Sugar and a Post-Slavery Economy in Free Fall -- 'Buckra Has Gun, Negro Has Firestick': -- Post-Emancipation -- Political Struggles -- 'Their Very Independence is an Evil': -- Cane Sugar Elites Creating Inflammable Materials in Post-slavery Society -- Figure 1. Sugar cane plantations still dominate the Plantain Garden River District of St Thomas. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- 'Legal Redress is Shut out from One Class Altogether': -- Magisterial Oppression in St Thomas-in-the-East -- Figure 2. Ruins of the Bath courthouse. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- Table 5.1. Status of Complainants and Defendants in Civil and Criminal Cases Heard in Petty Sessions at Bath, St Thomas-in-the-East, 1863-65 -- Table 5.2. The Economic Links of Justices of the Peace in St Thomas-in-the-East -- Table 5.3. Planter-Magistrates vs Labourers in Civil and Criminal Cases Heard at Bath, St Thomas-in-the-East, 1863-65 -- Table 5.4. Judgements Handed Down Against Tax Offences in Petty Sessions at Bath, St Thomas-in-the-East, 1863-65 -- Table 5.5. Labourers vs Labourers, Civil and Criminal Cases Heard in Petty Sessions at Bath, St Thomas-in-the-East, 1863-65 -- 'Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin': -- The Intellectual Foundations and Leadership of the 'Morant Bay Rebellion' -- Figure 3. John Willis Menard - Edith Menard - 'John Willis Menard' - Negro History Bulletin 23-No.3 (1964). Restored by Clinton Hutton. -- Figure 4. This photograph is believed to be of Paul Bogle. Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica. Restoration and Art by Ainsley Kerr. 'You Are No Longer Slaves, But Free Men': -- George William Gordon: The Brown Link Ideology and Politics -- Figure 5. George William Gordon. Photo by Duperly Brothers in Harper's Weekly. -- 'Buccra Can't Catch Duppy, No, No': -- Marching into War Oh with the Spirits at Morant Bay -- Figure 6. Remains of the Steps of Paul Bogle's Chapel in Stony Gut. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- Figure 7. The cutlass is still pervasively used in Revival and Kumina rituals in Jamaica today. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- 'Take a Thousand Black Men's Hearts for One White Man's Ear': -- The Suppression of the Black Jamaican Masses in 1865 - A General Survey -- Figure 8. Morant Bay Massacre. Drawing by Clinton Hutton. -- Figure 9. Col. Francis Hobbs. Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica. Restoration by Ainsley Kerr and Clinton Hutton. -- Figure 10. One of the three canons at the fort behind the Morant Bay courthouse where persons were tied, stripped of their clothing and whipped. Photo by Clinton Hutton. -- Figure 11. The spot where Arthur Wellington was executed and decapitated. -- 'He set my house on fire, and I was in Childsbirth': -- The Suppression of the Black Woman -- Figure 12. Morant Bay after October 1865 with the burnt out courthouse in the background. Photo courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica. -- Factors Which Accounted for the Defeat of the People's Rising -- Figure 13 Governor Edward John Eyre. Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica. -- The Nature of the 'Negro Character' Determined the 'Character of Negro Insurrections': -- The Philosophical and Ideological Justifications for the Suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion -- References -- Index.
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Jamaica--History--Insurrection, 1865. Insurgency--Jamaica--History. Jamaica--Politics and government--To 1962.