Thursday, May 5, 2016

"The Notorious Riot": The Socio-economic and Political Base of Paul Bogle's Revolt


Robotham, Don, "The Notorious Riot": The Socio-economic and Political Base of Paul Bogle's Revolt, Working Paper # 28, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of West Indies, 1981.

Paul Bogle (1822 – 24 October 1865)[1] was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 Morant Bay Protesters, who agitated for justice and fair treatment for all the people in Jamaica. After leading the Morant Bay rebellion, Bogle was captured and hanged on 24 October 1865 in the Morant Bay Court House by the British authorities.

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