On 13 November The Times ran an article that concluded that events in Morant Bay had demonstrated that it was ‘impossible to eradicate the original savageness of African blood.’ For ‘as long as the black man has a strong white Government and a numerous white population to control him he is capable of living as a respectable member of society. He can be made quiet and even industrious by the fear of the supreme power, and by the example of those to whom he necessarily looks up. But wherever he attains a certain degree of independence there is the fear that he will resume the barbarous life and
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