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Though a successful businessman, Bustamante’s concern for the plight of the workers–especially sugar can plantation workers–led him to organize the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union in 1938. In his travels, he noted the indignities, the exploitation and racial oppression of colonialism, so back in Jamaica, he campaigned for worker’s rights and never lost sight of the suffering and abject poverty of masses of his people. They then traveled to New York City, where he worked in a hospital before returning to Jamaica in 1932.

While on one of his shorts trips back to Jamaica, they were married in Kingston.

From Cuba, Bustamante went to Panama where he spent almost ten years he met Mildred E. He migrated to Cuba where employment opportunities were expanding in the sugar industry there he also served in the Spanish army. Overall he received little formal education in Jamaica and was disdainful of a plantation apprenticeship, which would have led him to succeed his father as an overseer. His mother, Mary Wilson, was a Black woman from the rural parish of Hanover.īefore leaving Jamaica in 1905, he attended primary school and did private studies. Manley, Michael Manley and Hugh Shearer–all of whom would eventually be chief minister and/or prime ministers of Jamaica). (Because of the second marriage of his grandmother to Alexander Shearer, he became distantly related to Norman W. Perhaps Jamaica’s most flamboyant and charismatic politician, Bustamante’s father, Robert Constantine Clarke, was the White overseer of a small, mixed-crop plantation called Blenheim, on the isolated northwestern coast of the island. For much of his life, he lived under the tyranny of British colonialism with Jamaica existing as a crown colony.
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