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2. Freemansonry in Barbados Before 1914: The Limits of Brotherhood
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Downes,Aviston D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- St. Lawrence, Barbados: Caribbean Universities Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 285-309
- Notes:
- Freemasonry has been an important sociocultural institution in the Caribbean since the early eighteenth century, but to date there has been little scholarship on the movement in the region. This article, based on primary Masonic documentation, is a case study of Freemasonry in Barbados between 1880 and 1914. During this period Freemasonry was torn between its idealized notions of brotherhood and the discriminatory practices based on race, class and gender imbedded in colonial relations. Efforts by Barbadian whites to exclude blacks from English Freemasonry were thwarted by London-based Masonic officials. Indeed, the commitment of British Freemasonry to a policy of racial inclusiveness convinced middle-class black Barbadians of British "fair play". [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];