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Hello, on the 11th of October 1865, Paul Bughall led a march from Stoney Gotter-Germaker

to the courthouse in nearby Morant Bay and there, Simming Anger turned to bloodshed.

The British had abolished slavery barely 30 years before but the plantation owners were

still dominant and the British government suppressed this rebellion brutally on their behalf.

Hundreds of people were killed.

As a result, you make people lost what right they had to rule themselves while in Britain

some like Dickens supported the government while others like Darwin wanted him trying

for murder.

We'd meet to discuss the Morant Bay rebellion our downer, Peyton, the William Robertson

Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, Lawrence Goldman, Emeritus Fellow in History

at St. Peter's College University of Oxford and Matthew J. Smith, Professor of History

and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacy of the British Library at University

College London.

Matthew Smith, what would you like for the majority of people in Jamaica before the abolition

of slavery in 1834?

It was very brutal.

In fact, the experience of enslavement had been going on from the 17th century in Jamaica

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