Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

by Colin A. Palmer

Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469611694
• ISBN13: 9781469611693
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"