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Morant Bay was the site of Jamaica's 1865 rebellion that led to major political reforms.

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Morant Bay

Morant Bay is a town in southeastern Jamaica and the capital of the parish of St. Thomas, located about 40 kilometres east of Kingston, the capital. The parish has a population of 94,410.

During the nineteenth century, the parish was an area of sugar cane plantations, with a majority of black enslave descendant after the abolition of slavery. The Morant Bay Rebellion started on 11 October 1865, with a march by hundreds of people from the parish to the court house to protest poor conditions in the parish. After seven men were shot and killed by volunteer militia, the people
burned the court house and other nearby buildings; a total of 25 people died on both sides in this confrontation.
Over the next two days, hundreds of Jamaican people took control throughout the parish. The governor ordered troops to arrest and suppress the revolutionists; they killed more than 400 persons outright and arrested more than 300, in both cases including many innocent people. Many of those arrested were executed, flogged or sentenced to long terms. This was the only major revolt (as distinguished from slave rebellions and worker uprisings), in Jamaican history. The court house was rebuilt. It stood until 2007, when it was burned down. Court functions were held in other facilities before a new court house was completed and opened in 2014.
Morant Bay's sister cities are Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada and Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Morant Bay is the birthplace of Miss World 2019 Toni-Ann Singh.

This description uses material from the Wikipedia article on Morant Bay and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (view authors).