Background to Independence

Hoyos, F. A., Background to Independence, New York: Advocate Press, 1967.

From the author’s Foreword:

”Background to Independence” is, in the main, a collection of articles that were first published in the “Sunday Advocate” under the caption “Towards Independence”. They appeared in fifteen installments and ended shortly before Barbados attained independence in November 30, 1966.

Contents:

1) Battle for Freedom.
2) A Stormy Period.
3) Scylla and Charybdis.
4) Social Revolution.
5) Benevolent Despotism.
6) Crown Colony Government.
7) Prescod the Pioneer.
8) The Federation Riots.
9) The People Assert Themselves.
10) Against Autocracy.
11) The Workers Revolt.
12) Constitutional Advance.
13) The Federal Idea.
14) Federal Fiasco.
15) The Agony and The Ecstasy.