Christian Preachers As Enemies Of The State, Part 1: Alexander Bedward
Content Warning: this episode contains mentioned of physical and emotional abuse.
Alexander Bedward, emerged during 1889 as a minister in the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church. Throughout the 1890’s and beyond, he would emerged as one of the leading christian preachers in Jamaica. Tales of his healing power and his power of prophecy spread across the island and the rest of Caribbean region where Bedward emerge as one of the first black nationalists in post-emancipation Jamaica.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865 by Gad Heuman
Colon Man a Come: Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration by Rhonda Frederick
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal by Olive Senior
The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica by Gad Heuman
History of Bedwardism, or, The Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church, Union Camp, Augustown, St. Andrew, Ja., B.W.I. by A.A. Brooks
The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama, 1850-1914 by Velma Newton
Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865 by Philip D. Curtin
FICTIONAL BOOKS
Augustown by Kei Miller
New Day by V. S. Reid
The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Winter
ACADEMIC PAPERS
All God's Children Had Wings: The Flying African in History, Literature, and Lore by Jason Young
Early Stirrings of Black Nationalism in Colonial Jamaica: Alexander Bedward of the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church 1889-1921 by Verona Satchell
Historical Notes on West Indians on the Isthmus of Panama by George W. Westerman
A Tale of Two Tragedies: Forgetting and Remembering Kingston (1907) and Port-au-Prince (2010) by Matthew J. Smith
ARTICLES
The Jamaica Gleaner: Who Were The Native Baptists by Eron Henry
The Paris Review: Rise Up: Why Alexander Bedward Promised to Fly to Heaven by Edward White
PODCASTS
Lest We Forget: Coolie Gang, Ghettos and Rastafari: A Story of Four Continents and A Couple Black Markets
Lest We Forget: The Christmas Rebellion
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 23- The One About Augustown By Kei Miller
New Books in Caribbean Studies: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Strictly Facts Podcast: The History of the Panama Canal: Reconsidering Race and Borders
VIDEOS
Hill An Gully Ride: The History of August Town