Thomas MacDermot
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For those of a similar name, see Thomas McDermott.
Thomas MacDermot (b. 1870, d. 1933) was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for over twenty years. Thomas MacDermot worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the Jamaica Times in 1899, and starting the All Jamaica Library in 1903. The All Jamaica Library is a series of novellas and short stories written by Jamaicans about Jamaica which were reasonably priced to encourage local readers. Thomas MacDermot also published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam.
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- Becka’s Buckra Baby (1904)
- One Brown Girl and - a Jamaica Story (1909)
- Also in the All Jamaica Library, but not written by Thomas MacDermot, Maroon Medicine, by E. A. Dodd (listed as E. Snod)
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