What was the position of black jamaicans in jamaican society

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Assignment:

1) Describe the main issues facing Jamaica in 1865. In answering this question, consider the following:

What was the position of black Jamaicans in Jamaican society, and who held power in the Jamaica colony?
Whether there were any economic problems facing the island
The effectiveness of Governor Eyre's leadership

2) Do you think Paul Bogle was justified in his actions on 11 October 1865? In answering this question, consider the following:

Whether there were other alternatives available to the marchers
Whether the use of violence, especially by colonised peoples, could ever be justified or 'right'
Whether the violence used was targeted and focused or widespread and indiscriminate

3) Was the colonial administration's response to the rebellion proportionate? In answering this question, consider the following:

How did the colonial troops behave in putting down the rebellion?
Did martial law need to last as long as it did?
What were Governor Eyre's motives in declaring martial law and suppressing the rebellion?
Did George William Gordon receive a fair trial?

4) Why was Governor Eyre so concerned with having an Act of Indemnity passed and then abolishing the Assembly? In answering this question, consider the following:

What an Act of Indemnity is, and what legal effects it has
What Governor Eyre assumed the British Government's reaction would be to his actions
What impact abolishing the House of Assembly would have on Jamaican politics

5) Read the case of Phillips v Eyre. Does the judgment adequately explain the reasons for the Morant Bay rebellion and the details of its suppression? In answering this question, consider the following:

What is the role of a court compared to the role of the Royal Commission, which investigated the rebellion?
Do you think the judges wanted to hold Edward Eyre liable?
Do you find the judge's defence of the retrospective Act of Indemnity convincing?

6) Consider again the definition of the rule of law. Is Phillips v Eyre a good example of the rule of law in action? In answering this question, consider the following:

Was the law applied equally to everyone in Jamaica?
Why do you think the textbooks do not provide more detail about the rebellion?
What do you think this case tells us about the operation of law in the British Empire? In considering this, think about what you have learned in lectures about British governance of colonial Kenya and the Chagos Islands.

Use the following Sources in your answers

Books

William Francis Finlayson, A Treatise on Martial Law, as Allowed by the Law of England in Time of Rebellion (Stevens 1866)

Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso 2019), ch 2

Gad Heuman, 'The Killing Time': The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica (The University of Tennessee Press, 1994)

Rande W Kostal, A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law (OUP 2008)

Bernard Semmel, The Governor Eyre Controversy (McKibbon & Kee 1962)

A W Brian Simpson, Human Rights and the End of Empire (OUP 2004) 58-70

Journal Articles

Gad Heuman, '1865: Prologue to the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica' (1991) 65 Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide 107

B A Knox, 'The British Government and the Governor Eyre Controversy, 1865-1875' (1976) 19 The Historical Journal 877

Dylan Lino, "The rule of law and the rule of empire: A.V. Dicey in imperial context" (2018) 81 Modern Law Review 739

Anna Kasafi Perkins, ''Mr Gordon met his fate in the religious spirit': A letter, empire, Christianity and the death of George William Gordon' (2019) 31 Cultural Dynamics 224

Stephen C Russell, ''Slavery Dies Hard': A Radical Perspective on the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica' (2022) 43 Slavery & Abolition 186

Bernard Semmel, 'The Issue of "Race" in the British Reaction to the Morant Bay Uprising of 1865' (1962) 2 Caribbean Studies 3

Mimi Sheller, 'Hidden Textures of Race and Historical Memory: The Rediscovery of Photographs Relating to Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865' (2011) 72 The Princeton University Library Chronicle 533.

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