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233 NOTES INTRODUCTION 1. Z, “A. R. F. Webber,” Daily Argosy, July 1, 1932. The line “the fame fight he made” was taken from Charles Wolfe, “The Burial of Sir John Moore,” in which he remarked: “Slowly and Sadly we laid him down, / From the field of his fame fresh and gory.” The analogy with Moore refers to Webber’s patriotism and the pride he took in the defense of his nation. 2. While the newspapers accounts at the time of his death gave Webber’s birth year as 1879, his birth certificate gives his birth year as 1880. The mistake is replicated on his “Certificate of Death,” which notes his age as fifty-three (he was in his fifty-third year when he died) and the cause of death as “cerebral hemorrhage.” 3. Around 1890, James and Sarah Webber (nee Hope) separated, and James immigrated to Guyana, where he joined his two half-brothers who had immigrated to Guyana previously. Ernest, Percival, and James had the same mother. Along with Ernest, Percival, and James, there were three other sisters, Lena, Edith, and Lucille, the last of whom became mentally ill. 4. See Report of the West India Royal Commission, Vol. 2, Appendix C (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1897). 5. Interview with Louis Ross, January 1989. 6. A. R. F. Webber, Centenary History and Handbook of British Guiana (Georgetown, British Guiana: Argosy, 1931), 335. 7. Daily Chronicle, June 30, 1932. 8. See Leach Reade Rosenberg, Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chap. 3, for a discussion of the novels of de Lisser. 9. See Morley Ayearst, The British West Indies (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1960), for a description of this search for self-government. 10. Ibid., 111. 11. Reno Rohini, “The Hon. A. R. F. Webber,” Daily Chronicle, May 4, 1930. 12. C. L. R. James, The Life of Captain Cipriani (Nelson, Lancashire: Coulton, 1932), 5. 13. W. Arthur Lewis, Labour in the West Indies (1938; reprint London: New Beacon, 1977), 38. 14. New Daily Chronicle, February 1929. 15. Private communication, January 2, 2007. 16. Private conversation, August 2007. 17. C. A. R., “History and General Knowledge Attractively Served,” Daily Chronicle, July 5, 1931. 18. Denis Benn, The Growth and Development of Political Ideas in the Caribbean, 1774–1987 (Mona: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1987), 113. NOTES 234 19. This is an excerpt of a poem that Webber wrote to his daughter Ivy on December 1, 1920. It is in the collection of Barbara Cox (nee Whitehead); a copy was sent to this author on May 15, 1989. Barbara married Joe Cox. 20. See my Note on Nomenclature. 21. Rohini, “Hon. A. R. F. Webber.” 22. Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society, 1788–1880 (London: Routledge, 2002), 216. 23. See Cheddi Jagan, The West On Trial (New York: International, 1972), chaps. 4 and 5, for a good account of the political development of Guyana during that period. 24. Benn, Growth and Development of Political Ideas, 60. Benn says that Froudacity “not only constitutes an importantelementinthedevelopmentofanationalisticconsciousnessbutmayalsobesaidtomarkthetentative starting point of a systematic intellectual tradition of nationalist protest in the region.” Ibid., 60–61. 25. Quoted in Nicole King, C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), 31. 26. Franklin Knight, “Introduction.” In Richard B. Moore: Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings, 1920–1972, ed. W. Burghardt Turner and Joyce Moore Turner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 7. 27. Ibid., 8. 28. See Kenneth Ramchand, The West Indian Novel and Its Background (London: Heinemann, 1980); and Anthony Boxhill, “The Beginnings to 1929,” in West Indian Literature, ed. Bruce King (London: Macmillan, 1979), 42. 29. See Harold Lutchman, From Colonialism to Co-operative Republic: Aspects of Political Development in Guyana (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1974); and Harold Lutchman, “Middle Class Colonial Politics: A Study of Guyana with Special Reference to the Period 1920–1931” (Ph.D. diss., University of Manchester, 1967). 30. Clem Seecharan, Tiger in the Stars: The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana, 1919–29 (London: Macmillan Education, 1997), 152–53. 31. See Jagan, West on Trial, 64–65. 32. Ayearst, British West Indies, 111. 33. SeeRoyArthurGlasgow,Guyana:RaceandPoliticsamongAfricansandEastIndians(TheHague:Martinus Nijhoff, 1970); and Peter Simms, Trouble in Guyana (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966). 34. See Nigel Westmaas, “1905: Guyana’s Rebellion,” http//www.solidarity-us.org/act/114Westmaas.html...
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