Richard Hart (13 August 1917 – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the pioneers of Marxism in Jamaica. He also served as attorney-general in Grenada under the People's Revolutionary Government in 1983. Hart was the author of several notable books on Caribbean history - including Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1939–1945, Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion and The Grenada Revolution: Setting the Record Straight (2005) - and lectured on the subject at universities in the West Indies, the US, Canada and Europe. Rupert Lewis once called him "the most consistent Caribbean activist". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hart_(Jamaican_historian_and_politician)