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John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre

Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of Victorian liberals John Stuart Mill and John Bright, and how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody suppression roused them against state violence.

Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of two high Victorian liberals - John Stuart Mill, and, via a visit to Manchester, John Bright.

She explores how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody suppression roused them against state violence.

With Eugenio Biagini, Stuart Jones, Ben Griffin, Edmund Fawcett and Richard Huzzey.

Producer: Phil Tinline.

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15 minutes

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  • Thu 10 Dec 2015 13:45