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Froudacity = Froud's audacity?

 
 
Reply Tue 10 Jul, 2012 07:54 pm

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Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude is a 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.
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Reply Wed 11 Jul, 2012 08:15 am
@oristarA,
Yes. It's a play on words.
It could be Audacity or even Mendacity. (lies)

Wow. I had no idea about this history. Very interesting.

Joe(carry on)Nation

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