Abstract
In the period after Marcus Garvey's return to Jamaica from the United States, the civil rights leader was welcomed as a hero by the poorer classes but was viewed with suspicion by the authorities, who feared his popularity and his reputation. In 1930, he was charged, prosecuted, and convicted of seditious libel. Although his conviction was ultimately overturned in the Court of Appeal for procedural reasons, his trial and conviction for sedition was one way in which the authorities tried to abort his controversial political programs to uplift the black race. This article traces his trial as an example of how the legal system in post-emancipation colonial Jamaica was used to abort Garvey's fledgling political movement.
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