There’s a new book by Reverend Devon Dick (an ordained Baptist minister) which takes a look at Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) from the perspective of the Christian faith motivating political activism. In the book, Reverend Dick argues that Baptist Deacon, Paul Bogle, and Assemblyman George Williams Gordon, were propelled to protest inequalities and injustices because of their distinctive native Baptist (creolised) version of the English Baptist tradition.
Unlike the traditional historical reviews of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the book suggests that credit for the Morant Bay Rebellion should be given to those of African origin who interpreted the Bible with practical applicability to their everyday life. Reverend Dick has apparently done some thorough research and draws on original documents (attributed to Bogle and other Native Baptists) to produce an alternative interpretation of the actions of Bogle, Gordon and other Native Baptists, and also introduces a new paradigm for understanding their struggle for equality, justice and liberation
September 11th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Nicely/thoroughly researched and logically reasoned.
Now where is the adjustment to the previous literature?
Writer must work in tandem with the Min. of Ed