Jeremy Corbyn

Then the slaves were brought in, and trying to understand something of the history of the slave trade and the uprisings, Morant Bain, all the others.

That wasn't

mainstream in the education in Jamaica, because we'd only been independent a few years when I got there.

That developed much more.

And I then spent a lot of time trying to understand something about the history of Jamaica and this wonderful society it is and the origins of it, largely through the slave trade, but also through indentured labourers and others that came.

And so it was my education more than anything else, and it still is.

And you're coming up to 20 now.

Well, I saved a little bit of money and travelled around in Latin America, then came back to Britain.

Why Latin America?

Because I was fascinated by it.

But were your parents?

No, nobody in the family had ever been there before.

Yeah.

I went to South America because I was fascinated by it, the ideas of it, and travelled all round.

You've got books in your... I took lots of books.

I bought books wherever I could get them and read them and then either gave them away or if I really liked the book I would then post it back to myself in Britain so I could keep the book which is probably a bit of a waste of money really because I could have bought them here but anyway.

So I was reading a lot, observing a lot, and trying to understand a lot, and reading quite a lot of history of Inca civilization, because I was in Peru and Bolivia, and trying to understand the way in which the European empires had destroyed the, or tried to destroy the culture that's there.

But that culture lives on, particularly in Bolivia and Peru.

So to me, it was a massive education opportunity.

So I come back to Britain,