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	Morant Bay Rebellion
		It was not until Jamaica got its independence in 1962, that on the 100 anniversary of the Morant Bay Rebellion the mass grave of the men hanged and buried behind the Court house was excavated, the monument of Paul Bogle was erected and the leaders Paul Bogle and George William Gordon were declared national heroes.
		Morant Bay rebellion was a breaking point in Jamaican history and social and political situation have changed into better as a result of it, similarly as the Civil Right Movements of the sixties have improved considerably the situation of the African Americans in the United States.
		In the case of Morant Bay rebellion; two public buildings; Court house and vestry burnt comparing with 1030 houses burned by the suppression; 22 persons killed during the rebellion and 439 according to official records executed or shot during the suppression.
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	The Morant Bay Rebellion - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		It was carried to a higher level in the Christmas Eve Rebellion of 1831 in Montego Bay led by Sam Sharpe which sped up the abolition of slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1838.
		As a result of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the Rio Cobre irrigation scheme, the Kingston Public Hospital and the Bellevue Hospital were established.
		The Morant Bay Rebellion took place nearly 23 years before the birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was born in 1887.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20051012T200000-0500_90239_OBS_THE_MORANT_BAY_REBELLION.asp (854 words)

	Macmillan Publishers Caribbean, Academic - Warwick, Killing Time
		The Morant Bay rebellion broke out in Jamaica on 11 October, 1865.
		This book explores in detail the rebellion itself as well as the background to the outbreak and its aftermath.
		Coming thirty years after the end of slavery, the rebellion was a political and social watershed in the history of the Caribbean.
	www.macmillan-caribbean.com /books/academic/Wkilling.htm (175 words)

	Morant Bay rebellion information - Search.com
		The Morant Bay rebellion began on October 11, 1865, Paul Bogle led 200 to 300 fl men and women into the town of Morant Bay, parish of St.
		The rebellion and its aftermath, which were a major turning point in Jamaica's history, also generated a significant political debate in Britain.
		While some historians have argued that the Morant Bay uprising was no more than a local riot, in its wake the Jamaica Assembly renounced its charter and Jamaica became a Crown Colony.
	www.search.com /reference/Morant_Bay_rebellion (869 words)

	A Special Gleaner Feature on Pieces of the Past - The Triumph of Will: National Heroes -The first 500 years in Jamaica
		Named concurrently were Paul Bogle, a preacher and farmer who led the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, George William Gordon, an ex-member of the House of Assembly, hung for his alleged role in the Morant Bay Rebellion, and Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a journalist and printer.
		By the first week in January the rebellion had been put down by the militia the dead included 14 whites and 500 slaves most slaves having died during the period of retribution that followed the rebellion.
		This Christmas Rebellion or Sharpe's Rebellion as it is also known, was pivotal to hastening the process of emancipation.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0012.html (1634 words)

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		Several slave rebellions stand out in Jamaica’s history for example, the Easter Rebellion of 1760 led by Tacky; and the Christmas Rebellion of 1831 which began on the Kensington Estate in St. James, led by Sam Sharpe.
		The frequent slave rebellions in the Caribbean was one factor that led to the abolition of the slave trade and slavery.
		In October 1865, an uprising in St. Thomas, called the Morant Bay Rebellion, was led by Paul Bogle.
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	Paul Bogle: Jamaica, History Jamaica, caribbean history, black history, Morant Bay rebellion, Caribbean, Information.
		The beginnings of the Morant Bay Rebellion first started on October 7th, 1865 when Bogle and his supporters, attended a trial for two men from Stony Gut, a fl man was put on trial and imprisoned for trespassing on a long abandoned plantation.
		The reprisals came quickly, the troops destroyed Stony Gut, and Paul Bogle's chapel, Bogle was captured by the Maroon militia, and taken to Morant Bay where he was put on trial and hung at the burnt-out courthouse.
		The Morant Bay rebellion turned out to be one of the defining points in Jamaica's struggle for both political and economical enhancement.
	www.itzcaribbean.com /history_jamaica_paul_bogle.php (707 words)

	Caribbean History: Labor and Rebellion \| caribbean-guide.info
		The stalemate between Jamaica and Britain existed until the historic Morant Bay Rebellion on Jamaica gave the British crown a foothold.
		Gordon was transferred from Kingston, where he was arrested, to the Morant Bay area so Eyre could have him tried under martial law rather than in civil court.
		While the crown commended Eyre's quick response to the rebellion, he was arrested in 1866 for his actions, particularly in the unfair execution of Gordon.
	caribbean-guide.info /past.and.present/history/labor.rebellion/index.html (1433 words)

	Morant Bay rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morant Bay rebellion began on October 11, 1865, Paul Bogle led 200 to 300 fl men and women into the town of Morant Bay, parish of St.
		The rebellion and its aftermath, which were a major turning point in Jamaica's history, also generated a significant political debate in Britain.
		While some historians have argued that the Morant Bay uprising was no more than a local riot, in its wake the Jamaica Assembly renounced its charter and Jamaica became a Crown Colony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morant_Bay_rebellion (865 words)

	Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morant Bay, its chief town and capital, is the home of the Morant Bay Rebellion, of which Bogle and George William Gordon were leaders.
		The Spaniards established cattle ranches at Morant Bay and Yallahs.
		In 1674, the French Admiral Du Casse, sailed from Santo Domingo and landed at Morant Bay on June 17.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Thomas_Parish,_Jamaica (772 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ...
		General History: Morant Bay is one of the most historic towns in Jamaica because of the Morant Bay Rebellion; a peasant uprising that had significant and far-reaching effects on the governance of the country and on the lives of ordinary people.
		At the end of the rebellion, George William Gordon was arrested and hanged in Morant Bay.
		Just behind the courthouse, guarded by a number of ancient canons used to defend the bay from invaders, lies the 1865 memorial, where remains found in one of the mass graves were re-interred with plaques commemorating the live of the hundreds of people who died in the struggle.
	www.visitjamaica.com /resorts/kingston/places_general.aspx?guid=8141c681-b414-4dce-8bb9-14dbc578d91c (714 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Morant Bay Rebellion
		The Morant Bay Rebellion turned out to be one of the defining points in Jamaica's struggle for both political and economical enhancement.
		The Morant Bay Rebellion first started on October 7, 1865 when a poor fl man was put on trial and imprisoned for trespassing on a long abandoned plantation.
		(1) Edward Bean Underhill, "The Tragedy of Morant Bay: A Narrative of the Disturbances in the Island of Jamaica in 1865".
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Morant_Bay_Rebellion (954 words)

	Jamaica Bay: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Nearly all of the bay is in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City; since 1950 much of the adjacent area has been reclaimed for housing.
		Nearly all of the bay is in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens...
		Bay, which includes Raritan Bay on the west and Gravesend Bay on the northeast is joined to Newark Bay by Arthur Kill.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/jamaica-bay.jsp?l=J&p=1 (1865 words)

	Untitled Document
		It was the 'Morant Bay Rebellion' of 1865 which put the parish firmly in the annals of Jamaican history.
		Morant Point Lighthouse: This is the oldest lighthouse in Jamaica and it stands on a 300 ton concrete foundation at the extreme eastern end of the island.
		Morant Bay Court House: The original building was destroyed in the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865 but was rebuilt shortly afterwards in limestone and red brick.
	www.jamlib.org.jm /stthomas_history.htm (1649 words)

	The Parishes of Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Morant Bay Rebellion was led by Paul Bogle.
		Morant Bay Courthouse - was burnt down during the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865.
		Morant Bay Lighthouse - is a 100 ft. structure that was built in 1841.
	www.mfaft.gov.jm /Country_Profile/st_thomas.htm (297 words)

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		The Tragedy of Morant Bay: A Narrative of the Disturbances in the Island of Jamaica in 1865.
		Underhill, The Tragedy of Morant Bay: A Narrative of the Disturbances in the Island of Jamaica in 1865, 51.
		Underhill, The Tragedy of Morant Bay: A Narrative of the Disturbances in the Island of Jamaica in 1865, 57.
	www.usna.edu /History/honors/2003/GattoThesis.doc (6025 words)

	Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay
		The Morant Bay rebellion, occurring at a moment of intense debate over the status and characteristics of "the negro," ensured the subjection of the Afro-Jamaican labouring classes; I hope to show that this is intimately connected to the granting of citizenship to English working-class men.
		Although the Sepoy Rebellion (the so-called Indian Mutiny) of 1857 and the New Zealand Land Wars (once called the Maori Wars) of the mid-1860s were far bloodier, it was Morant Bay that crystallized debate in Britain about the imperial mission itself.
		One of the consequences of the Jamaica rebellion was the abolition of the Jamaican House of Assembly and the imposition of direct rule from London (Jamaica became a Crown Colony after 1866), thus ending even the pretense of self-government in the British West Indies.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v1i1/watson.htm (12983 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the Morant Bay Rebellion that was led by Paul Bogle he was captured with Paul Bogle and Hanged because of his association with him.
		Ensuing this he led a crowd of people to the courthouse in Morant bay while a town meeting was ongoing.
		Although he was arrested and hanged shortly after this rebellion made the Government listen to the people and to try to make life better for them.
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	A Dutch View on Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The flogging in Montego Bay of two Trelawny's (it was said they were thiefs) was the cause for the Second Maroon War in 1795.
		The rebellion was bloody as well and Sam Sharpe was hanged on a square in Montego Bay, now known as Sam Sharp Square.
		The Morant Bay Rebellion, as it went down in history, took the lives of a few whities, but was put down cruel by governor Edward John Eyre.
	www.dutchjamaica.com /dj2001-7.shtml (842 words)

	\| Review \| The History Teacher, 37.2 \| The History Cooperative
		The climactic moment in this arrangement was not emancipation but the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, which divided missionary opinion over the place to be occupied by freedmen and women of Jamaica.
		The governor ordered the leader of the rebellion, George William Gordon, executed and the incident prompted revocation of the colony's semi-independence in favor of a return to status of a crown colony.
		Indeed, the period from the emancipation of slaves in 1838 (with "apprenticeship" to follow) to the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865 linked Jamaica and Britain, colony, and metropole.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/37.2/br_5.html (1042 words)

	Go-Local Jamaica
		He was eventually taken by the maroons near Torrington in St. Thomas on 24 October 1865 and hanged the same day from the flened centre arch of the burnt-out Morant Bay curt-house, like the other leaders of the rebellion.
		The Morant Bay Rebellion and the resultant deaths of Bogle and Gordon precipitated the beginning of a new era in Jamaica’s development.
		Sharpe was tired of slavery, spent months in strategic planning, educating the slaves and traveling from estate to estate in secret meetings at nights, igniting the slaves with inspiring messages of hope of freedom.
	www.go-localjamaica.com /readarticle.php?ArticleID=371 (966 words)

	The Rastafarians by Leonard Lee Barrett (being slowly typed....)
		Partly because of this rebellion, the King of England hastened the emancipation of the slaves in Jamaica in 1834.
		The central cause of this rebellion (sometimes called the Baptist War) evolved from Sharpe's assertion that the slaves' free papers had arrived and were being withheld by the Planters' pressure on the governor of Jamaica.
		One of the major causes of revolution is the pesence of what the social scientists call relative deprivation; that is, when a segment of the society is deprived of the wealth and status enjoyed by another segment of society because of race, religion, or sexual inferiority imposed by the privileged class.
	www.reggaeguesthouse.com /culture_reggae_ko_samet_reservation/the_rastafarians/the_rastafarians_2.htm (4313 words)

	CASBAH: Lord John Russell: Papers
		Administrative/Biographical history: In 1865 the court house at Morant Bay was the scene of an event in Jamaican history known as the Morant Bay Rebellion.
		Paul Bogle (c.1825-1865) was the leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 against white colonial rule in Jamaica.
		Contained within the series PRO 30/22: Lord John Russell: Papers, in the subseries: Correspondence and Papers, are a number of records relating to the so-called Morant Bay Rebellion, 11th October 1865, and the role of Governor Eyre (acting governor of Jamaica in 1861 and governor from 1864-1866).
	www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/138/PROA00050.htm (429 words)

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		To this end, Bogle organised a protest march from his hometown in Stony Gut to the Morant Bay courthouse.
		The Morant Bay Rebellion, as it became known, initially conceived as a peaceful protest, resulted in the execution of over five hundred persons and harsh punishment for countless others, including Bogle, who was hanged on October 24, 1865.
		Paul Bogle has been immortalized in Jamaica with a commemorative bust at the Morant Bay courthouse and a shrine at National Heroes Park.
	www.visitjamaica.com /resorts/south/great_jamaicans_general.aspx?guid=a712a545-db02-419b-8834-8940fd49ca2c (356 words)

	Ch 10
		Samuel Sharpe was hanged on May 23, 1832 and was buried in the sands of the Montego Bay Harbour from which his remains were later recovered and interred beneath the pulpit of the Burchell Baptist Church.
		On October 11, when the Vestry was meeting in the Court House at Morant Bay, Paul Bogle and his followers marched into the town and demonstrated in front of the Court House.
		Gordon was arrested as the instigator of this rebellion, but there was no evidence whatever that he had deliberately instigated it.
	www.discoverjamaica.com /gleaner/discover/geography/history4.htm (2555 words)

	Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay
		The Morant Bay rebellion, occurring at a moment of intense debate over the status and characteristics of "the negro," ensured the subjection of the Afro-Jamaican labouring classes; I hope to show that this is intimately connected to the granting of citizenship to English working-class men.
		Morant Bay occurred at a moment when what we might call the "romantic" and the "scientific" understandings, to risk a convenient shorthand, of blood, race, and inheritance still overlapped.
		One of the consequences of the Jamaica rebellion was the abolition of the Jamaican House of Assembly and the imposition of direct rule from London (Jamaica became a Crown Colony after 1866), thus ending even the pretense of self-government in the British West Indies.
	152.1.96.5 /jouvert/v1i1/watson.htm (12983 words)

	Visions of the Caribbean: Government & Rebellions
		Illustrators for periodicals recorded major rebellions and the rise of independent nation-states in the region.
		The revolt of enslaved Africans in French San Domingue in 1791 led to the emergence of Haiti, in 1804, as the second independent nation-state in the Americas.
		In 1865 artists documented the Jamaican Morant Bay rebellion, a major assault on British colonial rule in the Caribbean.
	www.historical-museum.org /exhibits/visions/gr.htm (184 words)

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