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The report of the Moyne Commission speaks volumes about the instigants of the drive towards independence. Post-war Jamaica was a place where the population was under serious threat. Despite the clear need for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the enslaved, there were no dedicated programmes through which the remnants of ten generations of enslaved persons could smoothly transition into society. During the crisis of the 1930s, Lord Moyne sailed to the Caribbean to determine the causes of the unrest, and he eventually proposed a programme of work to address these ills. Despite these efforts and those of subsequent governments, critical deficiencies in each of these areas remain today.
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Clarke, C., Nelson, C. (2020). The Moyne Commission. In: Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44663-5_3
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