Book Description
The formerly enslaved community, persisted with its protest and rebellion; Wage protest in the sugar fields intermingled with the civil rights agitation on the assembly floor, finally led to open warfare in the form of the 1876 Rebellion.
Against this background of 19th century popular protests and workers’ agitation, the modern labour movement, the anticolonial campaign, and agitation for democratic governance came to maturity by the 1920s. The final breach in the walls of the structures of white supremacy was achieved in 1937 when the workers took to the streets and field with arms under the ideological leadership of the charismatic Garveyite organizers, Clement Payne. It had taken a full century of struggle after emancipation to see, even at a distance, the freedom that was promised by the abolition of slavery legislation.
