"The Terror Spread: The Morant Bay Rebellion and Jamaican History" - Opening Ceremony
"The Terror Spread: The Morant Bay Rebellion and Jamaican History" -- October 22 - 25, 2015
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Morant Bay Rebellion the Social History Project of the Department of History and Archaeology, The UWI-Mona, will host a conference on the history and legacies of the rebellion.
The 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica was a watershed episode in British Caribbean history. Between October and November 1865 Governor Edward Eyre issued orders for the execution, beating and unlawful imprisonment of over one thousand free men and women. These atrocities were a panicked response to a struggle for justice in the parish of St. Thomas in–the–East that was organized by members of the colony’s peasant majority denied their full rights after freedom from slavery in 1834. The horrific actions of the government dramatically transformed colonial Jamaican politics. Across the Atlantic events in Jamaica figured prominently in debates on race, freedom, the future of emancipation societies, imperialism, and resistance.
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