CHAPTER 1
Marcus Garvey was born in St Ann’s Bay, a northern seaport town of Jamaica, on 17 August 1887, to Sarah Jane Richards and Marcus Garvey Senior. Garvey’s father was an artisan of some repute, a bricklayer in the rural town of St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His mother’s family were small farmers.1 Garvey’s parents were married in 1889, two years after his birth. His father, Marcus Garvey Sr, had fathered three separate sets of children. Marcus Garvey Jr belonged to the third set. There were eleven children in all, of whom Garvey’s mother had four.