Book Launching
The Caribbean Diaspora Press at the Caribbean Research Center will host
a book launching at Medgar Evers College. The book introduced to the
public is written by Guyanese author Hugh "Tommy" Payne and is entitled
Ten Days in August 1834. 10 Days that Chneged the World . The topic of
the book is a non-violent slave rebellion in colonial Guyana, narrated
from the perspective of the slaves. Making extensive use of historical
court documents, Mr. Payne carefully reconstructs the sequence of events
surrounding this rebellion.
As Dr. James Rose, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, comments
on the importance of this work in the foreword to this book, Payne
argues that the colonial response to the uprising "was a sophisticated
Colonial Office rouse too play on the conscience of the dispossessed.
[...] It is remarkable irony that such profound change in the political
landscape has eluded the more recent group of scholars of Caribbean
history." Without doubt, Mr. Payne's book has filled a significant gap
in the historical study of the post-abolition period.
The book launch will be on Saturday, February 23, 2002, 4 - 6:30 p.m.
in the Nadeen Lawe Lounge of Medgar Evers College (CUNY), 1650 Bedford
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225. The author will speak and sign copies of the
book. For reservations please call 718-270-6081 or email
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