Garvey’s nationalism was continuous with a longer radical tradition, not a unique phenomenon

Evidence

The Registry, though, was only the immediate cause, slavery the more enduring one. Recall, almost one hundred years earlier, in Jamaica, another Nanny, the leader of the Windward Maroons, had similarly distinguished herself. The first Nanny had left her name on the map of Jamaica, Nanny Town, but her other “possessions” she shared. Among them were the ethos of the Black radical tradition. Of course, it had not really belonged to her. Indeed, if possession were ever at issue, it would be the other way around. The tradition had produced her as it did the Nanny of Barbados. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 800 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Garvey’s mass movement drew on an older Black nationalist tradition; The Black radical tradition produced its individual leaders rather than vice versa — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 800

Broader Connections