Colour for colour, skin for skin : marching with the ancestral spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay /

Colour for colour, skin for skin : marching with the ancestral spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay /

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Author / Creator:	Hutton, Clinton A., author.
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2015.
Description:	xv, 259 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Insurrection (Jamaica : 1865) Insurgency -- Jamaica -- History. Blacks -- Jamaica -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century. Blacks -- Race identity -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century. Blacks -- Government relations. Blacks -- Race identity. Insurgency. Politics and government. Race relations. Jamaica -- History -- Insurrection, 1865. Jamaica -- Politics and government -- To 1962. Jamaica -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Jamaica. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10464852

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Varying Form of Title:	Color for color, skin for skin Marching with the ancestral spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay
ISBN:	9766379068 9789766379063
Notes:	Rework of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of the West Indies, 1992) presented under the title: "Colour for colour, skin for skin": the ideological foundation of post-slavery society, 1838-1865, the Jamaican case (a study of some ideas justifying the Morant Bay rebellion and its suppression). Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.
Summary:	"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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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Rework of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of the West Indies, 1992) presented under the title: "Colour for colour, skin for skin": the ideological foundation of post-slavery society, 1838-1865, the Jamaican case (a study of some ideas justifying the Morant Bay rebellion and its suppression).
Physical Description:	xv, 259 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.
ISBN:	9766379068 9789766379063