"Alexander Bedward, minister of the revivalist Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church during the period 1889-1921, emerged as one of the island's earliest black nationalists. Under the guise of religion Bedward called on the black majority to rise up and take action against the prevailing system of racial discrimination, socio-economic deprivation, injustice, the tyranny of minority colonial rule, and to establish a government representative of the people. While he was revered by the masses, attracting thousands of followers at home and abroad, he was feared by the upper classes and colonial authorities, who saw him as a threat to political stability. An antagonistic relationship developed between the government and Bedward. Eventually, he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to the lunatic asylum, where he later died." (publication abstract);
Mintz,Sidney W. (Author) and Hall,Douglas (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970;1960
Published:
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
26 p, Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by Yale University Press which was issued as Yale University publications in anthropology ; no. 57./ Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 57-64 also orig. pub. and reprinted under collective title Papers in Caribbean anthropology. Compiled by Sidney W. Mintz./ Bound with Yale University. Department of Anthropology. Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 58-64./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-26).
