Christian Preachers As Enemies Of The State, Part 1: Alexander Bedward

Content Warning: this episode contains mentioned of physical and emotional abuse.

Alexander Bedward, emerged during 1889 as a minister in the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church. Throughout the 1890’s and beyond, he would emerged as one of the leading christian preachers in Jamaica. Tales of his healing power in the Hope River, his power of prophecy and his proclamation of been a reincarnation of Christ and would ring out throughout the island, the rest of Caribbean region and even as far as Costa Rica. Thousands travel to August Town to be baptised and witness the great preacher in action. Still, Bedward emerge as one of the first earliest black nationalists in Jamaica. .

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865 by Gad Heuman

  • Colon Man a Come: Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration  by Rhonda Frederick

  • Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal by Olive Senior

  • The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica by Gad Heuman

  • History of Bedwardism, or, The Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church, Union Camp, Augustown, St. Andrew, Ja., B.W.I. by A.A. Brooks

  • The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama, 1850-1914 by Velma Newton

  • Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865 by Philip D. Curtin

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