When the historian James Anthony Froude published The English in the West Indies in 1888, arguing that the black population of the islands was unfit for self-government, John Jacob Thomas, a self-taught Trinidadian schoolmaster and linguist, answered him chapter by chapter. He follows Froude island by island, exposing his errors and defending the intelligence, labour and political capacity of West Indians.
A landmark of Caribbean intellectual history and an early, eloquent answer to imperial racism. Download the free EPUB.