CONTENTS
PREFACE by Rupert John .. v
FOREWORD by Davidson Nicol ..ix
INTRODUCTION by Hyacinth Charles ... xi
BIOGRAPHICAL FOREWORD by Karl John ...xiii
PART I: THE FIGHT AGAINST COLONIALISM AND PROMOTION OF THE CONCEPT OF SELF-RULE ..1
Chapter I George Augustus McIntosh ... 3
Chapter II Herbert Fitz-Allan Bryan Davis .25
Chapter III Ebenezer Duncan 35
Chapter IV Alfred Clement De Bique .53
PART II: THE EFFORTS OF TEACHERS TO EDUCATE THE YOUNG 65
Chapter V Benjamin Nathaniel Bacchus ..67
Chapter VI James Robert Augustus William Cato .75
Chapter VII Thomas Webster Clarke ..81
Chapter VIII Christopher Wilberforce Prescod 91
Chapter IX Darnley Egerton Williams ..101
PART III: THE ROLE OF THE PRESS IN PROMOTING WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT ........................109
Chapter X Robert Mowbray Anderson ..111
Chapter XI Joseph Burns Bonadie 125
Chapter XII James Elliot Sprott 131
PART IV: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC-SPIRITED MERCHANTS ..145
Chapter XIII Owen Douglas Brisbane .147
Chapter XIV Walter McGregor Grant 159
Chapter XV Joseph Milton Gray 169
PART V: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC-SPIRITED PLANTERS ..181
Chapter XVI Alexander Murdoch Fraser ..183
Chapter XVII Donald Cuthwin McIntosh 191
Chapter XVIII Arnold Morgan Punnett 199
PART VI: THE VARIED LABOURS OF A BOLD PEASANTRY 209
Chapter XIX Simon Solomon Garrett 211
Chapter XX James Augustus Providence 219
Chapter XXI Henry Crichton ..225
Chapter XXII Robert Timothy Samuel ..229
EPILOGUE .233
Pioneers in Nation-Building in a Caribbean Mini-State by Sir Rupert John was first published in 1979. In the preface. Sir Rupert stated that it was "an attempt to consider in one small volume the lives of twenty-two Vincentians and the contributions they made during the earlier years of the twentieth century to the political, economic, social or cultural development of their native land." This republication, thirty years later, should remind the older generation and educate today's generation of Vincentians, about the sterling contributions made by the persons profiled in this book.
A Biographical Foreword on Sir Rupert John is included in this republication. Coming nearly thirteen years after his death, it attests to our conviction that his own contribution to nation-building in his homeland and elsewhere deserves the telling of his own story.