Froudacity

Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude

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Author	John Jacob Thomas
Country	Trinidad
Language	English
Subject	Caribbean politics and history
Publisher	T. Fisher Unwin
Publication date	1889
Pages	261 pages

Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude is an 1889 polemic written by John Jacob Thomas as a rebuttal to James Anthony Froude's 1888 book The English in the West Indies. Froude's travelogue attacked the British West Indian colonies for wanting to establish self-government, arguing that if the majority black population were allowed to vote on leaders they would choose leaders that would repress the white population. Like many of his West Indian contemporaries, Thomas was outraged at the inaccuracies of Froude's text as well as the racist arguments that Froude uses as justification for his beliefs. He decided that writing a refutation to Froude was his patriotic duty^[1] and that it would act as self-vindication^[2] for West Indian blacks.

Froudacity was Thomas' last and most significant work. Thomas finished writing it shortly before succumbing to pneumonia.