Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude; pp. 1-259

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Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude - is an 1889 controversy written by John Jacob Thomas to refute James Anthony Froude's 1888 book Englishmen in the West Indies. Froude's travelogue criticized the British colonies in the West Indies for wanting to establish self-government, arguing that if the black majority were allowed to vote for leaders, they would choose leaders who would suppress the white population. Like many of his contemporaries in the West Indies, Thomas was outraged by the inaccuracies of Froude's text, as well as the racist arguments Froude used to justify his beliefs. He decided that it was his patriotic duty to write a rebuttal to Froude, and that it would serve as a self-justification for West Indies blacks. This work of John Jacob Thomas was the last and the most significant. Thomas finished writing it shortly before he contracted pneumonia.

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