Oct 28 Race and Empire

I. Legacies of the Enlightenment

monogenesis

perfectability of man

brotherhood of man

II. Disappointed expectations

West Indies
-post-emancipation instability
-economic crisis
-Thomas Carlyle [bio], "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" (1849) [text]
reprinted as Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question (1853)

New Zealand
-Anglo-Maori Wars (1845-1872)

India
-British reactions to the 1857 Mutiny/Rebellion

Ireland
-Fenian outrages

III. Morant Bay Rebellion

Lieut-Gov Edward John Eyre [bio]

St. Thomas in the East (Morant Bay)

George Gordon

reprisals

metropolitan reaction
-Commission of Enquiry
-Jamaica Committee
-Eyre Defense Committee

outcome: suspension of representative government

The Jamaica Observer, Oct 12, 2005

The Jamaica Gleaner, Oct 18, 2009

IV. Social Darwinism and "scientific" racism

Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (1859)