The Morant Bay Rebellion as Digital Bridge between

The Morant Bay Rebellion as Digital Bridge between Caribbean and Victorian Studies Caribbean Digital V University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad 6 December 2018 (Rhonda Cobham-Sander, ccobhamsande@amherst. edu ) Leah Rosenberg, rosenber@ufl. edu Laurie Taylor, laurien@ufl. edu www. d. LOC. com

Paradigm shift supported by reprints and digitization, allowing widespread use of works previously only available in research libraries and national libraries in the region. e. g. : Anon. (1853). Adolphus, a Tale. (serialized in The Trinidadian (1853) and reprinted by Winer, L. , B. Brereton, et al. Barbados, University of the West Indies Press, 2001. ) Anon. (1827). Hamel, the Obeah Man, London. (1828). Marly, or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica. Anon. (1808). The Woman of Colour: A Tale. London. Cassin, F. (1890 s) With silent tread. A West Indian Novel. St. John's, B. W. I In d. LOC: The Carib - A West Indian Magazine 1895

Recent turn to Victorian Period in Caribbean Literary Studies 2002 F. Smith. Creole recitations : John Jacob Thomas and colonial formation in the late 19 th -century Caribbean 2003 Cudjoe, Selwyn. Beyond boundaries : the intellectual tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the 19 th century 2006 Evelyn O’Callaghan, Women Writing the West Indies, 1804 -1939: 'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us’ 2006 A. Donnell Twentieth-century Caribbean literature : critical moments in Anglophone literary history 2008 Tim Watson. Caribbean culture and British fiction in the Atlantic world, 1780 -1870 2009 Belinda Edmondson Caribbean middlebrow : leisure culture and the middle class 2011 Raphael Dalleo Caribbean literature and the public sphere : from the plantation to the postcolonial 2017 Candace Ward. Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture 2018 M. Barringer and W. Modest, eds. Victorian Jamaica

Morant Bay as Boundary Object How would knowledge of the Morant Bay Rebellion enhance students’ understanding of Race and Empire in English politics and literature of the Victorian period? How might a more thorough understanding of the debate in England over Morant Bay, Empire, and Race enhance our understanding of Jamaican history and literature?

Morant Bay: Two Histories, Two Debates

Morant Bay: The Legacy in Jamaican History and Culture • Mac. Demrot, Thomas. “A Tale of The Morant Bay Disturbance” (1890) • Folk Songs collected by Walter Jekyll (1907) • Mc. Kay, Claude. “Gordon to the Oppressed Natives” (1912) • de Lisser, Herbert G. Revenge (1919) • Reid. V. S. New Day (1949) • Mais, Roger. George William Gordon. [Play] (1949) • Third World. “ 1865” (96 Degrees in the Shade) (1977 • Halliburton, Franklin. 1865 (Opera)

Using archival documents to Rethink Dominant Narratives Rebels’ objectives Role of Race & Women Position of British Writers

Collaborating Across Victorian and Caribbean studies Caribbean Judaica Intra-institutional Collaboration Inter-Institutional Collaboration

d. LOC is assembling open access digitized resources on the Morant Bay Rebellion Primary sources Scholarship Teaching materials DH Projects

Primary sources on the Morant Bay Rebellion Parliamentary Papers Baptist Reports Folk Songs Pamphlets Jamaican literature (Mc. Kay, Mac. Dermot, De Lisser) Newspapers

The Queen’s Advice The Right Honourable E. Cardwell to Governor Eyre. " Copy. —Jamaica. —No. 222. " Downing Street, 14 th June, 1865. Dr. Underhill's letter : a letter addressed to the Rt. Honourable E. Cardwell, by Underhill, Edward Bean, 1865

Her Majesty's command to inform them, that the prosperity of the Laboring Classes, as well as of all other Classes, depends, in Jamaica, and in other Countries, upon their working for Wages, not uncertainly or capriciously, but steadily and continuously, at the times when their labor is wanted, and for so long as it is wanted ; and that if they would use this industry, and thereby render the Plantations productive, they would enable the Planters to pay them higher Wages for the same hours of work than are received by the best Field Laborers in this Country

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