From this interaction, Garvey started to envision a movement unifying people of African descent throughout the world. In addition, an Afro-Caribbean missionary who spent time in Basutoland informed him of colonialism in Africa.
Washington’s Up from Slavery, which heavily influenced his ideology. Two specific encounters during this time sparked his thinking. While in London, he worked as a messenger and handyman for the African Times and Orient Review, a magazine, which endorsed Ethiopianism and home rule for British-occupied Egypt. From 1912-1914, he traveled to London, England, where he briefly studied at Birkbeck College, University of London, to advance his formal education. From 1910 to 1911, he traveled to Latin American countries – Limon, Costa Rica and Colon, Panama – in search of work and to escape the economic hardship in Jamaica. Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in Saint Ann’s Bay, Saint Ann’s Parish, Jamaica, British West Indies into a working-class family. USA-v-Marcus-Garvey-Garcia-Thompson-and-Tobias-NAID-7388866 Download
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