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October 11, 2021

Paul Bogle

October 11, 2021

The Morant Bay rebellion began on this day in 1865 when Paul Bogle led more than 200 Black men and women into the town of Morant Bay, Jamaica to protest an arrest. The group was fired upon at the Court House, and it went ahead and rebelled and seized the town. Troops were sent after Bogle and his men, and in the end, over 800 black people were killed by troops and executed. The rebellion became a major turning point in Jamaica's history.

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