ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Marcus Garvey, Morant Bay Rebellion, Velma Pollard
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What is conveyed by the way it is said. I can convey that i am happy or angry or annoyed, impatient etc. But i can also convey something about who i think i am ie. identity. A particular language or variety of a language can itself function as a symbol of. Regardless of what is being said the very language one sues serves as a symbol. Dread talk can be described as a set of modifications to jamaican creole. Samuel sharp - a deacon at the church, he traveled to different estate educating slaves about christianity and freedom. The emancipation act freed slaves but didn"t change conditions much since the plutocracy owned all the arable land. Paul bogle: was a deacon of the native baptist church in stony gut. Spent much of his life educating members of his congregation. Marcus mosiah garvey, jr. - born in st annes bay.
