On 11 October 1865, several hundred black people marched into the town of Morant Bay, the capital of the mainly sugar-growing parish of St Thomas in the East, Jamaica. They pillaged the police station of its weapons and then confronted the volunteer militia which had been called up to protect the meeting of the vestry, the political body which administered the parish.
Fighting broke out between the militia and the crowd. By the end of the day, the crowd had killed 18 people and wounded 31 others. Seven members of the crowd died.
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