TY - BOOK AU - Beckles, Hilary, TI - Great house rules: landless emancipation and workers' protest in Barbados, 1838-1938 SN - 9766370850 AV - HD5344.57.A6 B43 2004 U1 - 331.89/089/96072981 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Kingston, Miami, Oxford PB - I. Randle, J. Currey KW - Labor disputes KW - Barbados KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Blacks KW - Economic conditions KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Protestbewegung KW - swd KW - Geschichte 1838-1938 KW - Schwarze N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index; The hundred year war, 1838-1938 -- Free blacks before emancipation -- A landless freedom: the emancipation process, 1838-1863 -- Emancipation betrayed : struggle for freedom begins, 1838-1897 -- The war of General Green: 1876. Rebellion against post-emancipation slavery -- Democracy from below: the new grassroots politics: 1897-1937 N2 - "When Emancipation came in 1838, Blacks in Barbados i magined that the terms of their everyday lives would undergo radical change. Instead, an unrelenting 'landless freedom' would be violently imposed upon a community whose conditions of life and work remained largely unchanged, on plantations that produced more sugar with less labour for below subsistence wages." "It was the rule of the Great House that subverted the promise of Emancipation. This is the story of the post-Emancipation betrayal of 83,000 Blacks in Barbados; it is also a narration of how these Blacks prepared for persistent resistance and civil war as the only means to effectively break the rule of the Great House and established preconditions for genuine Emancipation. The battles over progress were fought on the plantations, in the streets, in the courts, in the Legislative Councils and wherever Blacks recognised sites to effect change. This chain of organised rebellion was linked to produce the 1876 rebellion." "Against this background of 19th century popular protest and workers' agitation, the modern labour movement, the anti-colonial campaign and the agitation for democratic governance came to maturity by the 1920s. The final breach in the walls of the structure of white supremacy was achieved in 1937 when, under the ideological leadership of Clement Payne, workers took to the streets and fields with arms."--BOOK JACKET ER -