A massacre:British Barbarity

**andronian2** · 10-25-2010, 12:26 AM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

Anglo Barbarism finds ample evidence in the last 500 years of history.
You don't come to rule over a worldwide empire because everyone liked you so much and decided to hand over their ancestral lands.

**Panajar** · 10-25-2010, 12:47 PM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

An interesting account of the massacre by the Brits in Jamaica. This piece was written by the rector of Morant Bay and was printed in the New York times on November 6 1865.As expected this account of the massacre was heavily biased in favor of the colonizers.

I find this following segment quite informative as it gives a insight into the minds of the colonizers. It illuminate some of the physiological techniques used to control the black population and the lens though which the saw black Jamaicans .for the most part these tactics were quite effective. One cannot help but wonder how these techniques are currently utilize to achieve control over our people. I will highlight what I think are some of the most revealing points in this piece written by the rector.

<span style="font-size: 11pt">"Had there been no such tampering with [size:14pt]their loyalty</span>, the black population of the island would probably have <span style="font-size: 14pt">remained contented and quiet</span> They are, for the most part, a<span style="font-size: 14pt"> loyal</span>, industrious, <span style="font-size: 14pt">simple-hearted race</span>, who only require Just treatment, <span style="font-size: 14pt">wise and moderate control</span>, and proper encouragement, to make them a most useful class of citizens. Once reused by the arts of designing men, and the old half-extinguished fires of barbarism once more enkindled into full flame in their hearts, they become savages, demons; but even then are they not as much sinned against as sinning?" [/size] ..The rector of mordant bay 1865.

The Rector's full biased account of the massacre is right here in the new york times dated 1865... NEW YORK TIMES

**Wahalla** · 10-25-2010, 05:46 PM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pleXxed</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: #000099">National Heritage Week is "Feel-Good Week" when we lionise our national heroes and revel in our unique cultural heritage and its contribution to the world. We revisit the valiant moments of our history - slave uprisings such as Tacky's Easter Revolt, and Sam Sharpe's Christmas Rebellion, and the great Morant Bay peasant insurrection of October 1865 - when some of our ancestors fought for their rights, many losing their lives in the process.

As a people, we need these moments, for often there is little to distinguish us as a people in a blasé world of KFC and blue jeans; some even discount Jamaican culture as dark and backward in a world of iPods and BlackBerrys.

<span style="font-weight: bold">We need to be in touch with our history, not just to romanticise, but to learn about ourselves!</span> Yes, some of our ancestors fought against slavery and died, but others compromised and supported the system, and some fought to maintain it.<span style="font-weight: bold"> There is no way a few thousand white people could have subjugated several hundred thousand black slaves without traitors in the mix. </span>One of the reasons no slave revolt was ever successful in Jamaica was because most of the conspiracies were betrayed by "loyal" slaves.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The location of Nanny Town was betrayed to British soldiers in 1728 by an African slave named Sambo. </span>In May 1730, a party of soldiers consisting of 95 black shots (armed black slaves) and 22 baggage negroes under Captain Samuel Soaper found the town and attacked it.

Ballard Beckford, owner of Frontier estate (St Mary), sent two loyal slaves on horseback to Spanish Town to warn the Governor of Tacky's 1760 rebellion, who immediately dispatched soldiers and militia to put down the rebellion along with the Scotts Hall Maroons. <span style="font-weight: bold">The Maroons put down not only Tacky's rebellion, but Sam Sharpe's and Paul Bogle's as well. Does that make them heroes, or what?</span>
In October 1765, 45 Coromantyn slaves led by Quaco rose in revolt at Cross Path and Cornwall Estate, Westmoreland and killed four Britons and 11 black slaves in one night. Four militia and 10 black shots pursued them and engaged them at Dean's Valley, killing two of them.

Rebel attack

In April 1795 four slave-owners, Henry Paulett, Alexander Steel, Joseph Biggs and Thomas Kew were relaxing on the piazza of a house in Ventura, Trelawny, when a loyal slave named Rebecca Pleasure Wilton ran up and told them that the house was surrounded by rebels. They jumped up, ran for their guns, and took up defensive positions at the windows and doors. Shots rang out. A bullet went through Kew's head, killing him on the spot. Another bullet grazed Paulett and a third passed through Bigg's right shoulder. <span style="font-weight: bold">Just then Billy, a loyal slave, ran into the house, picked up the gun which Kew had dropped, and began shooting at the attackers. The four held off the insurgents for hours.

RUN FOR SAFETY

Five times the rebels tried to set the house on fire, <span style="text-decoration: underline">and each time Billy risked his life to put out the flames. </span>The rebels called him a "damn Chambo, cut-faced son-of-a-[censored]". At sunrise some of Paulett's loyal slaves approached the house, but were shot at and driven off by the rebels. When things were quiet, Paulett and Steel threw their valuables through a window for their slaves to carry and hurried through the woods to Duanvale Estate for safety.</span>

In 1805, the Trelawny Vestry paid for the freedom of William Reid, a slave, for his services in heading a party of black shots who apprehended a number of notorious "runaways".

The headman of Roehampton, St James, a slave named John Baillie, had a stone house with a mahogany sideboard in which wine was kept. He had as much provision grounds as he wanted, extra allowances of rum, sugar, pork and clothing; he kept cattle, hogs and poultry, and had the use of an estate mule and boy; he had a wife, and kept two other women; his wife was washerwoman at the Great House, and his daughter was "housekeeper" (euphemism for "mistress&quot

for the slavemaster. When offered his freedom, he said, laughing: "Massa, I know better".

Several slaves were offered their freedom for their "good conduct" during Sam Sharpe's 1831-32 rebellion.

Our history is replete with heroes and villains, definitely more of the latter than the former. Future historians writing about today may say the same about us. Are the creators and maintainers of today's garrison constituencies (and their funders) heroes or villains? Should we shower them with national honours, or vilify them?

Peter Espeut is a sociologist and a Roman Catholic deacon. Feedback may be sent to [email protected]</span>.</span> </div></div>

that is a very good peice...

**jah_yout** · 10-26-2010, 09:39 AM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-size: 14pt">When the news of the atrocities reached Britain there was a storm of protest. Britain divided into two camps: for or against Eyre. Eyre was turned into a Tory icon. <span style="font-weight: bold">In his favour were such notaries as Charles Dickens, the historian Thomas Carlyle and Charles Kingsley. Against Eyre stood John Stuart Mill and Charles Darwin</span></span>.</div></div>

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr245/bennett.htm

**Stormmey** · 10-26-2010, 10:07 AM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pleXxed</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: #000099">National Heritage Week is "Feel-Good Week" when we lionise our national heroes and revel in our unique cultural heritage and its contribution to the world. We revisit the valiant moments of our history - slave uprisings such as Tacky's Easter Revolt, and Sam Sharpe's Christmas Rebellion, and the great Morant Bay peasant insurrection of October 1865 - when some of our ancestors fought for their rights, many losing their lives in the process.

As a people, we need these moments, for often there is little to distinguish us as a people in a blasé world of KFC and blue jeans; some even discount Jamaican culture as dark and backward in a world of iPods and BlackBerrys.

<span style="font-weight: bold">We need to be in touch with our history, not just to romanticise, but to learn about ourselves!</span> Yes, some of our ancestors fought against slavery and died, but others compromised and supported the system, and some fought to maintain it.<span style="font-weight: bold"> There is no way a few thousand white people could have subjugated several hundred thousand black slaves without traitors in the mix. </span>One of the reasons no slave revolt was ever successful in Jamaica was because most of the conspiracies were betrayed by "loyal" slaves.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The location of Nanny Town was betrayed to British soldiers in 1728 by an African slave named Sambo. </span>In May 1730, a party of soldiers consisting of 95 black shots (armed black slaves) and 22 baggage negroes under Captain Samuel Soaper found the town and attacked it.

Ballard Beckford, owner of Frontier estate (St Mary), sent two loyal slaves on horseback to Spanish Town to warn the Governor of Tacky's 1760 rebellion, who immediately dispatched soldiers and militia to put down the rebellion along with the Scotts Hall Maroons. <span style="font-weight: bold">The Maroons put down not only Tacky's rebellion, but Sam Sharpe's and Paul Bogle's as well. Does that make them heroes, or what?</span>
In October 1765, 45 Coromantyn slaves led by Quaco rose in revolt at Cross Path and Cornwall Estate, Westmoreland and killed four Britons and 11 black slaves in one night. Four militia and 10 black shots pursued them and engaged them at Dean's Valley, killing two of them.

Rebel attack

In April 1795 four slave-owners, Henry Paulett, Alexander Steel, Joseph Biggs and Thomas Kew were relaxing on the piazza of a house in Ventura, Trelawny, when a loyal slave named Rebecca Pleasure Wilton ran up and told them that the house was surrounded by rebels. They jumped up, ran for their guns, and took up defensive positions at the windows and doors. Shots rang out. A bullet went through Kew's head, killing him on the spot. Another bullet grazed Paulett and a third passed through Bigg's right shoulder. <span style="font-weight: bold">Just then Billy, a loyal slave, ran into the house, picked up the gun which Kew had dropped, and began shooting at the attackers. The four held off the insurgents for hours.

RUN FOR SAFETY

Five times the rebels tried to set the house on fire, <span style="text-decoration: underline">and each time Billy risked his life to put out the flames. </span>The rebels called him a "damn Chambo, cut-faced son-of-a-[censored]". At sunrise some of Paulett's loyal slaves approached the house, but were shot at and driven off by the rebels. When things were quiet, Paulett and Steel threw their valuables through a window for their slaves to carry and hurried through the woods to Duanvale Estate for safety.</span>

In 1805, the Trelawny Vestry paid for the freedom of William Reid, a slave, for his services in heading a party of black shots who apprehended a number of notorious "runaways".

The headman of Roehampton, St James, a slave named John Baillie, had a stone house with a mahogany sideboard in which wine was kept. He had as much provision grounds as he wanted, extra allowances of rum, sugar, pork and clothing; he kept cattle, hogs and poultry, and had the use of an estate mule and boy; he had a wife, and kept two other women; his wife was washerwoman at the Great House, and his daughter was "housekeeper" (euphemism for "mistress&quot

for the slavemaster. When offered his freedom, he said, laughing: "Massa, I know better".

Several slaves were offered their freedom for their "good conduct" during Sam Sharpe's 1831-32 rebellion.

Our history is replete with heroes and villains, definitely more of the latter than the former. Future historians writing about today may say the same about us. Are the creators and maintainers of today's garrison constituencies (and their funders) heroes or villains? Should we shower them with national honours, or vilify them?

Peter Espeut is a sociologist and a Roman Catholic deacon. Feedback may be sent to [email protected]</span>.</span> </div></div>

very good and informative read pleXxed

**neutral** · 10-26-2010, 01:01 PM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pleXxed</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Page not found | Jamaica Gleaner

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091023/cleisure/cleisure2.html

[font:Verdana][color:#000099]National Heritage Week is "Feel-Good Week" when we lionise our national heroes and revel in our unique cultural heritage and its contribution to the world. We revisit the valiant moments of our history - slave uprisings such as Tacky's Easter Revolt, and Sam Sharpe's Christmas Rebellion, and the great Morant Bay peasant insurrection of October 1865 - when some of our ancestors fought for their rights, many losing their lives in the process.

As a people, we need these moments, for often there is little to distinguish us as a people in a blasé world of KFC and blue jeans; some even discount Jamaican culture as dark and backward in a world of iPods and BlackBerrys.

<span style="font-weight: bold">We need to be in touch with our history, not just to romanticise, but to learn about ourselves!</span> Yes, some of our ancestors fought against slavery and died, but others compromised and supported the system, and some fought to maintain it.<span style="font-weight: bold"> There is no way a few thousand white people could have subjugated several hundred thousand black slaves without traitors in the mix. </span>One of the reasons no slave revolt was ever successful in Jamaica was because most of the conspiracies were betrayed by "loyal" slaves.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The location of Nanny Town was betrayed to British soldiers in 1728 by an African slave named Sambo. </span>In May 1730, a party of soldiers consisting of 95 black shots (armed black slaves) and 22 baggage negroes under Captain Samuel Soaper found the town and attacked it.

Ballard Beckford, owner of Frontier estate (St Mary), sent two loyal slaves on horseback to Spanish Town to warn the Governor of Tacky's 1760 rebellion, who immediately dispatched soldiers and militia to put down the rebellion along with the Scotts Hall Maroons. <span style="font-weight: bold">The Maroons put down not only Tacky's rebellion, but Sam Sharpe's and Paul Bogle's as well. Does that make them heroes, or what?</span>
In October 1765, 45 Coromantyn slaves led by Quaco rose in revolt at Cross Path and Cornwall Estate, Westmoreland and killed four Britons and 11 black slaves in one night. Four militia and 10 black shots pursued them and engaged them at Dean's Valley, killing two of them.

Rebel attack

In April 1795 four slave-owners, Henry Paulett, Alexander Steel, Joseph Biggs and Thomas Kew were relaxing on the piazza of a house in Ventura, Trelawny, when a loyal slave named Rebecca Pleasure Wilton ran up and told them that the house was surrounded by rebels. They jumped up, ran for their guns, and took up defensive positions at the windows and doors. Shots rang out. A bullet went through Kew's head, killing him on the spot. Another bullet grazed Paulett and a third passed through Bigg's right shoulder. <span style="font-weight: bold">Just then Billy, a loyal slave, ran into the house, picked up the gun which Kew had dropped, and began shooting at the attackers. The four held off the insurgents for hours.

RUN FOR SAFETY

Five times the rebels tried to set the house on fire, <span style="text-decoration: underline">and each time Billy risked his life to put out the flames. </span>The rebels called him a "damn Chambo, cut-faced son-of-a-[censored]". At sunrise some of Paulett's loyal slaves approached the house, but were shot at and driven off by the rebels. When things were quiet, Paulett and Steel threw their valuables through a window for their slaves to carry and hurried through the woods to Duanvale Estate for safety.</span>

In 1805, the Trelawny Vestry paid for the freedom of William Reid, a slave, for his services in heading a party of black shots who apprehended a number of notorious "runaways".

The headman of Roehampton, St James, a slave named John Baillie, had a stone house with a mahogany sideboard in which wine was kept. He had as much provision grounds as he wanted, extra allowances of rum, sugar, pork and clothing; he kept cattle, hogs and poultry, and had the use of an estate mule and boy; he had a wife, and kept two other women; his wife was washerwoman at the Great House, and his daughter was "housekeeper" (euphemism for "mistress&quot

for the slavemaster. When offered his freedom, he said, laughing: "Massa, I know better".

Several slaves were offered their freedom for their "good conduct" during Sam Sharpe's 1831-32 rebellion.

Our history is replete with heroes and villains, definitely more of the latter than the former. Future historians writing about today may say the same about us. Are the creators and maintainers of today's garrison constituencies (and their funders) heroes or villains? Should we shower them with national honours, or vilify them?

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In the same vein,slavery would not have been possible to maintain without the assistance of blacks in africa,I am glad it is you that posted this piece and not I,I would have been accused of all kinds of nonsense if I pointed out the obvious..................on these forums its not so much the message that people object to,but the messenger.

**jah_yout** · 10-26-2010, 01:40 PM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">..The rector of morant bay 1865.

The Rector's full biased account of the massacre is right here in the new york times dated 1865... NEW YORK TIMES </div></div>

wow...
very informative...

you would not believe an empire built on global plunder who founded that island colony by means of force of arms & forced enslavement & of a people & racism would have the nerve to print such derogatory words in the farrin press...but there it is...

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 11pt">KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday, Nov. 6.

The insurrection which broke out a few weeks since, in the Parish of St. Thomas in the East, has been put down. Most of the ringleaders and chiefs of the movement, through whose guilty agency the black peasants were incited to rise, have been captured, tried, convicted and summarily executed. Marcial law is still in force, but all danger is considered past. <span style="font-weight: bold">The insurgents have been put down, with short, sharp and decisive blows, and at least fifteen hundred of these deluded wretches have suffered the penalty of outraged law</span></span>.</span>

substitute that last number with 100 and you could be easily talking about tivoli...only they would not dare describe it in the press in those terms anymore;

yes mother britain left a very clear legacy of brutality which our politicians inherited and
passed on to the security forces & portions of the population...

nuff miseducation a gwaan

**neutral** · 10-26-2010, 03:00 PM

Re: A massacre:British Barbarity

Yes,how much different was the massacre, and the barbarity meted out to the people of tivoli by the security forces,supported by a great may jamaicans,including some on this site.
No doubt the british acted with exactly the same sense of upholding the rule of law,the tivoli rebellion,...another time another place,same barbarity.

**jah_yout** · 10-26-2010, 07:52 PM

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in dudus' capture- jamaican security forces capture individual loved by a segment of the people at the behest of a great foreign-located empire

in bogle's capture jamaican 'security' forces capture individual beloved by a segment of the people on behalf of a foreign power

however bogle's movement was a true insurrection where dudus incident was just defiance against the state's authority/ power ...

in both cases the majority of victims was the common afro-jamaican...
little has changed in 150 years as far as the respect given to the common jamaican by
the government which has to answer to foreign interests

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