The Grenadian Revolution, Part 1: Post Emancipation Woes

Written By The Yaad

1950 would be one of the most significant years to understand the Grenadian Revolution, however, the events of this year were years in the making. It was years of build up tension arising from the neglect of the country’s majority black and poor population, coupled with the organising influence of Uriah Butler in nearby Trinidad and Tobago and the national black power empowerment movement enhance by of T.A. Marryshow. Grenada, unlike other countries in the anglophone Caribbean region, did not have large scale union backed labour protest in the 1930’s and this would add to this palpable tension. This episode also contains a brief history of the Banda Massacre which exposes the dark history of nutmeg cultivation and European colonisation

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • A History of Organized Labor In the English-speaking West Indies by Robert J. Alexander, Eldon M. Parker

  • Belvidere Estate - Fedon's House Voices from the Past by Herman G. Hall

  • Black Power in the Caribbean by Kate Quinn

  • Caribbean Freedom : Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present edited by Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd

  • Colonialism and Resistance in Belize: Essays in Historical Sociology by O. Nigel Bolland

  • Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica by Colin A. Palmer

  • Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution by Catherine Sunshine and Philip Wheaton

  • In The Spirit of Butler: Trade Unionism In Free Grenada

  • Labour Rebellions of the 1930s in the British Caribbean Region Colonies by Richard Hart

  • The 1935 Riots in St Vincent from Riots to Adult Suffrage by Adrian Fraser

  • The Caribbean in the 1930s by Franklin W. Knight

  • The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity by A.W. Singham

  • The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 by Kit Candlin

  • The Moyne Report by West India Royal Commission (1938-1939)

  • The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean: The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Labour Movement Hardcover by O. Nigel Bolland

  • The Trinidad Labour Riots of 1937 Perspectives 50 Years Later edited by Roy Darrow Thomas

ACADEMIC PAPERS

  • Ambiguity and Imprint: British Racial Logics, Colonial Commissions of Enquiry, and the Creolization of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s by Leslie James and Daniel Whittall

  • Armed Incidents and Unpaid Bills: Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Banda Islands in the Seventeenth Century by Vincent C. Loth

  • Labor and Nationalism in the British Caribbean by George T. Daniel

  • Scholarship Or Solidarity? The Post-Emancipation Era In The Caribbean Reconsidered by Pieter C. Emme

  • The "Radical" Movement Towards Decolonisation In The British Caribbean In The Thirties by Sahadeo Basdeo

  • Indian Participation In Labour Politics In Trinidad, 1919–1939 by Sahadeo Basdeo

  • The Political Role of Organised Labor In The Caribbean by William L. Cumiford

ONLINE ARTICLES

VIDEOS

  • Absolute History: How Did Nutmeg Cause Wars In Indonesia? | The Spice Trail | Absolute History

  • TED-Ed: How One of the Most Profitable Companies In History Rose To Power - Adam Clulow

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