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Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under the Canadian prime minister's guidance. However, after he moved to Montreal to study political science his politics started to shift. By the late sixties he was an active civil rights supporter and when Black students in Montreal began to protest racism in 1969, he helped lead the sit-in. He was identified as a protest ringleader after the peaceful protest turned into a police riot, and served 18 months in prison.
After his deportation from Canada in 1976, having been named a danger to national security, Douglas participated in political movements around the world building global solidarity. He became a leader of the Libyan-based revolutionary group World Mathaba and supported Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Once back home in Dominica, he led the movement for Dominica's full political independence from Great Britain, then served as a senator in the post-independence government, an MP, party leader, and finally prime minister.
Relying on family sources, interviews, newspaper articles, government documents, and Douglas' own articles, letters, and speeches, Irving Andre has drawn a rich and riveting record of this important Black revolutionary.
Contents
Foreword by David Austin
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part One 1. The Island of Dominica
2. Portsmouth Harbour
Part Two 3. The Heir Apparent Defects
4. A Gathering Storm
5. The Sir George Williams Incident
6. The Prosecution of Rosie Douglas
7. Incarceration
8. Black Radicalism in Toronto
9. Deportation
Part Three 10. Return to Dominica
11. Political Independence
12. Freedom Fighter
13. Domestic Politics
14. The Road to Victory
15. The January 2000 General Election
Part Four 16. Forming a Government
17. Internal Dissension
18. The Final Curtain
19. The Death of Rosie Douglas
20. Rosie's Legacy
Appendices I. Statement from the Don Jail, Toronto, December 1971
II. Statement from the Leclerc Institution, January 3, 1974
III. Message of Greetings to the Socialist Party of France, Brest, November 21-23-1997
IV. Speech on the Swearing In of the Cabinet of the Government of Dominica, February 7, 2000
V. Statement at the 55th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 19, 2000
Notes
Index
