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message from Tom Redcam, 1918

31/12/2014

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Daily Gleaner, August 5, 1918.
      Jamaica is populated by white persons, coloured persons, and black persons. All these are alike in a real sense native Jamaicans, and it may be said that the two last sections as well as the first, contain men and women as able and as well educated as Mrs. Jamet herself, and to whom her condescending patronage is as absurd as it is undesired. Each section of course, has its unworthy members, and for the present, especially as the great majority of the population falls in that section, the black people have the largest proportion of backward elements, but taking the right to lump them and all other Jamaicans as immoral and ignorant, and by imputation lazy, apathetic and helpless, is one of the strange ways that Mrs. Jamet has of showing that kindliness towards Jamaicans on which she insists, and of repaying their kindness to her. We have in Jamaica plenty of moral shortcomings, and a too large proportion of illegitimate births is one of these, but it may be added that a large number of such children spring, from unions, unsanctioned indeed by the marriage tie, but unions which are nevertheless in every thing else as close, faithful and abiding as are full sanctioned marriages. If also, the Illegitimate birthrate does run high, and it does, this is to a considerable extent because the population are free from certain practices by which the results of lust are better concealed in countries that show more bravely in statistics. Mrs. Jamet is quite right in suggesting that there is much lee-way to make up in Jamaica in striving after industrial prosperity. She is quite mistaken in representing us as being dead to this fact. Jamaica, industrially - as otherwise - is marching upward and onward, and the same problems that are being worked out elsewhere are, in their local variation  being grappled with here by men and women, who both by information and ability, are many times better fitted for this service than is Mrs. Jamet, [with her hasty generalizations, and crude sprinkling of facts and statistics, correct or otherwise, men are alive to]

      British rule in the West Indies has not[, as Mrs. Jamet would lead you to think,] done nothing but drowse and browse. The single fact that our Jamaica schools and colleges, primary and secondary, turn out students who, on entering America or Britain take good places, often front places, in the ranks of learning and action speaks of some of the British achievement. In what has been done a sure and splendid foundation has been laid for that industrial expansion and prosperity which is one of the immediate tasks of this and future generations. Black teachers serve in our schools, black doctors and lawyers practise their professions, black ministers fill our pulpits and are elected like their white brothers, to the chairmanship of their religious bodies. These islands know nothing of the lynch rope or the Jim-Crow car, and [as Mrs. Jamet is aware,] both our public customs and our laws forbid the exclusion from hotels of guests otherwise suitable, however much visitors from lands where such things must not be, object to this state of affairs. That prejudice has its place here is a fact, and in some respects it is a specially contemptible prejudice, but the language of such men as the late Professor Royce, Professor DuBois, and Bishop Smith of the A.M.E. Church, show how remarkably to the good we stand in this matter.

'. . . . we Jamaicans, black, white and brown, are quite able to look after our own affairs, under our own Government, and [that] the powers of evil and inertia existing here as they do elsewhere, are being met by other factors . . . .'


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enjoyed by ordinary folk!

27/12/2013

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So 2013 is very nearly over - can't say I've done all I intended to get done with this site, but I have made some progress. I have nearly completed two pages which, along with another completed page, add something, I think, to the picture of the lives of ordinary Jamaicans a hundred years ago. I shall try to complete those two pages a.s.a.p.!
'practice dances'
merry-go-rounds
lotteries & raffles
All these activities were greatly enjoyed by working-class Jamaicans, and often much disapproved of by the 'middle-classes', the churches and the 'authorities'! I hope they make interesting reading. J.L.
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making progress?

29/4/2013

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I am continuing, not very systematically, to transfer material from older sites to this new one.

I would be very grateful for comments on the usability of the format of the site, as well as on the content.

Please email me at jamaica.history(at)outlook(dot)com
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always something new

23/3/2013

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  There is always more to learn about Jamaica's history - I seem to find something new almost every day!  As I research new topics I will include them on the site. I always try to check the accuracy of information I put on my sites, but this is not always easy. If you find any incorrect information please email me, so that I can get things right, as far as I possibly can.

jamaica(dot)history(at)outlook(dot)com
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starting over

23/3/2013

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   Once again I am trying to organise the Jamaican history that I have put up on numerous sites on the Web. I'm not sure that the material will actually end up here, but I hope that over the next few months it will all be brought together, somewhere.  Joy Lumsden
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    Joy Lumsden
    retired history teacher/lecturer

    I have tried to be as factually accurate as possible on these pages, but there are certainly errors which need to be corrected. I shall be grateful for information on any such needed corrections.  My opinions are another matter, but I have tried to keep them to a minimum any way!    

    This is a strictly non-profit, educational site. No copyright infringement is intended. If there are any questions or concerns, please contact me. 
    Joy Lumsden jamaica(dot)history
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