The Morant Bay Rebellion (In Our Time)
1865 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rebellion that broke out in Jamaica on 11th October 1865 when Paul Bogle (1822-65) led a protest march from Stony Gut to the courthouse in nearby Morant Bay. There were many grounds for grievance that day and soon anger turned to bloodshed. Although the British had abolished slavery 30 years before, the plantation owners w
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Around 1865
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)