[2][3][4][5] He subsequently was based in Guyana for two years, before relocating to London, England, in 1965, working as a solicitor and co-founding the campaigning organisation Caribbean Labour Solidarity in 1974.
Hart was the author of several notable books on Caribbean history – including Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1939–1945 (1999), Slaves who Abolished Slavery (1980, 1985; reprinted 2002) and The Grenada Revolution: Setting the Record Straight (2005) – and he lectured on the subject at universities in the West Indies, the US, Canada and Europe.
[2] Richard Hart was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica,[7] on 13 August 1917,[8][9] of mixed heritage that included Sephardic Jewish[10] and African.
[13] Hart was known to have been a close friend of communist activist Billy Strachan, an accomplished Royal Air Force pilot who went onto become a pioneer of Black civil rights in Britain.
[1][4] After the demise of the People's Freedom Movement, Hart moved to Guyana, where he worked as the editor of The Mirror newspaper, which supported the views of Cheddi Jagan,[24] from 1963 to 1965.
[13][17] While in Guyana, Hart also undertook research into the history and culture of the Arawak people, making many visits to Amerindian communities in the interior.
[25][26] The letters exchanged between Hart and Bennett would eventually be published in 1991, in a book entitled Kabethechino ("Close Friends"), edited by Janette Forte of the University of Guyana.
Hart remained the Honorary President of CLS,[27] a group that "sets itself the task of informing the concerned about labour issues in the region as a whole".
[2][14][17][24] An internal power struggle in the leadership of the New Jewel Movement led to the killing of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the US Invasion of Grenada that began on 25 October 1983.
"[36] Socialist Review states: "This book is testimony to the courageous and unceasing struggle from below that won freedom and political rights for a population of slaves.