At the conclusion of his final prosecution the Spectator made a stark admission as to how little value some in Britain had come to place on the lives of black people. In an article entitled ‘The End of the Jamaica Prosecution’, it summarized the three years of the Morant Bay scandal and concluded that Britain had been willing to ‘pardon him, because his error of judgment involves only negro blood’, his actions would have ‘otherwise been in our nation’s eyes simply unpardonable.’48
