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Introduction
Welcome to St. Bryan's Learning Corner created by Jennifer Richards. I created this WebQuest in order to assist students in learning all they can about the Morant Bay Rebellion.
Did you all know that the rebellion was lead by one of our national heroes, Paul Bogle?
YOU DIDNT? WELL STICK AROUND AND FIND OUT MORE!
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Task
The task of the lessons are as follows:
- Learn about what happened in The Morant Bay Rebellion
- Who was responsible for The Morant Bay Rebellion?
- What happened to the persons involved in the rebellion?
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Process
HELLO STUDENTS! Before we go into the lesson, please watch this informative video about the Morant Bay Rebellion. Click on the link to take you to the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEH7fBz4K00&t=125s
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- Click on the link to complete the quiz to test your knowledge on The Morant Bay Rebellion:http://www.quizmoz.com/quiz.asp?quizid=82324
- The goal of this quiz is to test your knowledge on The Morant Bay Rebellion.
- Please take notes.
- After completing the quiz, let us move on to the next step...CONCLUSION
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Evaluation
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Conclusion
Now that we are at the end of our lesson I hope we all got something from it!! Well done!! Let's have a review of what we have learned...
How the Rebellion Started:
This occurred on October 7, 1865, when a court session held in the eastern town of Morant Bay charged a poor black man accused of trespassing on a long-abandoned plantation. A band of blacks from the small village of Stony Gut, about four miles away, entered the town of Morant Bay armed with bludgeons, protesting the man’s unjust detention. When one of the band was arrested the group became unruly and attacked the police, freeing the man from custody.
Two days later the magistrates ordered twenty-eight people detained for questioning. But, when police entered the village of Stony Gut they were surrounded by hundreds of poor blacks and handcuffed.
Here Paul Bogle, one of the respected leaders of the peasants in the area, wrote a petition to the Governor and declared that “an outrageous assault was committed upon us by the policemen of this parish, by orders of the justice…of which we were compelled to resist.”
The next day, October 11, as many as five hundred blacks entered Morant Bay in columns, blowing horns and carrying flags. They were armed with cutlasses, sharpened sticks, and a few older guns. One man was heard chanting, “we will kill every white and Mulatto man in the Bay, and when we finish, we will return and go to the estates.”
They soon confronted a hastily put together volunteer militia, of not more than thirty men, guarding the courthouse. Verbal bickering turned to projectile throwing until the mob actually moved in and tried to overrun the militia, at which time the order to fire was given. Seven members of the mob fell.
The militia quickly retreated and barricaded themselves inside the courthouse, which the mob then set ablaze. A few people escaped through the side windows, but most tried to run through the mob and were killed. Those who had unfairly treated the blacks over the years, such as the corrupt magistrates and leaders of the local parish, became particular targets.
Credits
REFERENCES:
Cavanaugh, J. (n.d.). The Cause of The Morant Bay Rebellion 1865. Retrieved November 16, 2018, from https://scholar.library.miami.edu/emancipation/jamaica4.htm