PART 1 : FROM CROWN COLONY TO<br > PEOPLE S REVOLUTION<br > This Revolution is for work， for food， for decent housing and<br > health services， and for a bright future for our children and<br > grandchildren.<br > Maurice Bishop: Address to the Grenadian People， 13 March<br > 1979<br >SUCH CONCr~T~ and real social benefits have always been the<br >basic aspirations of the Caribbean people， have always been<br >their consistent objectives of struggle. The people of Grenada，<br >the southernmost of the Windward Islands， had through four<br >centuries of colonial rule been a vital and integral part of that<br >energy of resistance. During these years they had struck blow<br >after blow for their freedom and had produced both movements<br >and individuals of genuine originality and genius. In 1650，<br >Grenada s Caribs jumped into the sea over a high cliff， having<br >fought right across the mountainous spine of their island， rather<br >than surrender to the French colonialists， and their example was<br >emulated many times in the revolts of the plantation slaves.<br >These struggles reached their climax in the 1795 revolt led by<br >Julien Fedon a free planter， who， inspired by the French and<br >Haitian Revolutions， and working in c ose I aison with the<br > Caribbean apostle of Revolution， Victor Hughes， controlled<br > the island for two years， only being defeated after British<br > colonialism had called upon its Spanish allies in Trinidad to lend<br > reinforcements. The emancipation of the Grenadi~ slaves did<br > not tame the drive towards freedom and true polmcal lusttce，<br > andin 1848 the Parish of St Patrick s was ablaze with organized<br > indignation and rebellion as the plantocracy moved to reduce<br > .the wages of agricultural labourers.<br > ~ Before the halfway point of the present century， out of<br >