Laughter is the natural response of most Jamaicans to the name
Alexander Bedward, long proclaimed as the lunatic who literally attempted to
fly to heaven. In Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of
August Town: Race, Religion and Colonialism, Dave St Aubyn Gossedebunks this common image of Bedward by drawing on new sources
to help cast Bedward in a more positive light. Gosse argues that Bedward ought
to be recognized as one of the significant black nationalists of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bedwardism was...
Laughter is the natural response of most Jamaicans to the name
Alexander Bedward, long proclaimed as the lunatic who literally attempted to
fl...
