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Richard Hart, historian, former Jamaica poltician and trade union activist, speaks about his background including his arrest during Jamaican War of Independence (1940s) and his suprise to find his detenion files at the British Public Records Office in the 1980s and 1990s.

Richard Hart discusses the relationship between his socialist politics and his writtings on slavery and the  thesis of his book, Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion.

 
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Table of Content of:  Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion, 1985

Table of Content of:  From Occupation to Independence, 1998

University of the West Indies Press

Notable Books on Caribbean (General)

Gelien Matthews, Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement, 2006

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 1938