The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 ECONOMIC CONDITION OF JAMAICA. 391 But altliougli emancipated from forced labour, the negroes of Jamaica have acquired neither political independence nor social equality, as shown by the san- guinary conflict that occurred in 18G5 between the two races near Morant Bay in the eastern district. On that occasion eighteen whites were killed and thirty-one Fig. 185.—District of Morant, Jajviaica. Scale 1 : 390,000. 0 to 5 Fathoms. Depths. 5 to 100 Farhoms. 9 Miles. wounded ; but the massacre was av
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 ECONOMIC CONDITION OF JAMAICA. 391 But altliougli emancipated from forced labour, the negroes of Jamaica have acquired neither political independence nor social equality, as shown by the san- guinary conflict that occurred in 18G5 between the two races near Morant Bay in the eastern district. On that occasion eighteen whites were killed and thirty-one Fig. 185.—District of Morant, Jajviaica. Scale 1 : 390,000. 0 to 5 Fathoms. Depths. 5 to 100 Farhoms. 9 Miles. wounded ; but the massacre was avenged with extreme severity, and a subsequent official inquiry reported that 438 people of colour had been killed, over 600 sen- tenced to the lash or the bastinado, and a thousand houses delivered to the flames. According to the commission, the revolt itself, so ruthlessly supjDressed, might cer- tainly have been avoided had the peasantry of the district received the lands to
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