How Jamaica’s Assembly Made It Illegal for Black People to Strike Whites Even in Self Defence in 1730

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In 1724, colonial Jamaica crossed a legal line that revealed how fragile justice was once race entered the picture. After a free Black man whooped a white attacker and successfully defended himself in court, Jamaica’s white-controlled Assembly responded not by correcting the injustice, but by changing the law itself. Their decision made it illegal for […]
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