The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica

The Killing Time is the first full-length study of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica—an event that transformed the political system of the island and marked a watershed in Caribbean history.

On October 11, 1865, several hundred black people marched into the town of Morant Bay, capital of the sugar-growing parish of St. Thomas. They pillaged the police station for weapons and confronted the local militia. In the fighting that followed, the crowd killed eighteen and wounded thirty-one; sev...