Black Christianity in the Americas

Abstract

In response to the tightening of European colonial control and the rapid decline in the region’s autonomy, Murphy provides an excellent analysis of two rebellions in the 1790s. The author explains that although they were undoubtedly part of the movements that crisscrossed the Atlantic, they do not fold so neatly into the broader Age of Revolution that rocked the Caribbean. Fedon’s Rebellion in Grenada and the Second Carib War in St. Vincent were part of a much longer struggle that dated back to the seventeenth century, one in which imperial powers attempted to assert colonial rule against a local population that wanted to exercising customary rights.