MARTIAL LAW: SIX LETTERS TO THE DAILY NEWS.

by Frederic Harrison, of Lincoln's Inn

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London: Jamaica Committee, 1867. 8vo. 53, iii, pp. In an atmosphere of discontent on Jamaica under the burden of a new tax levy, on the 11th of October 1865 the Negroes rose at Morant Bay and murdered the custos a local official and most of the white inhabitants. The encounter which followed filled the island with terror, and there is no doubt that many excesses were committed on both sides. The assembly passed an act by which martial law was proclaimed, and

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