The 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica has generally been interpreted as a struggle between the post-emancipation Black peasantry and the white colonial government, which led to a violent confrontation, military suppression, and the demise of the Jamaican House of Assembly in favor of direct Crown Colony rule. Yet, the archival record shows other more complex currents that were also at play, including multi-racial, cross-class alliances, and strong conflicts over local politics, corruption, and labor rights. This article focuses on a little noted aspect of the events of 1865: the arrest for sedition of Sidney Lindo Levien, a Jewish newspaper publisher of The County Union. Levien advocated for the poor, foreigners, and women; joined the Underhill Meetings supporting the political rights of the vast majority of people emancipated from slavery; and was arrested under martial law during the rebellion and later found guilty of sedition, serving nearly 7 months in prison of a 1 year sentence before being pardoned. Drawing on his own writings, photographs, family genealogy, and Levien’s hitherto unknown “Chronicle of 1865,” I argue that his story opens new questions about the relation between Jews and Baptists, Black and “Coloured,” Asian and Maroon, and varied elite and non-elite “White” populations in Jamaica, taking us beyond the typical Black-vs-white framing of the Morant Bay Rebellion toward a more multi-sided emphasis on cross-racial protest and multi-denominational resistance within the imperial global economy. Both dominant “White” colonial histories and subsequent Jamaican “Black” national histories have erased the more diverse actors and cross-cutting interests that shaped the events of 1865, which only come into view through a multi-ethnic history of global mobilities and shifting identities, which I refer to as a critical cosmopolitan perspective.

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使牙买加的莫兰特湾叛乱复杂化：犹太激进主义，亚洲契约和1865年的多民族历史

人们普遍将1865年牙买加的莫兰特湾叛乱解释为解放后的黑人农民与白人殖民政府之间的斗争，这导致了暴力对抗，军事镇压以及牙买加国会众议院的灭亡，而赞成直接选举。殖民地统治。然而，档案记录显示，其他更复杂的潮流也在发挥作用，包括多种族，跨阶级的联盟，以及对​​当地政治，腐败和劳工权利的强烈冲突。本文着重介绍1865年事件的一些鲜为人知的方面：该郡犹太报纸出版商Sidney Lindo Levien因煽动叛乱而被捕。列维恩主张穷人，外国人和妇女。加入了支持支持从奴隶制中解放出来的绝大多数人的政治权利的Underhill会议；在叛乱期间根据戒严令被捕，后来被认定犯有煽动叛乱罪，在被判赦免之前，在将近7个月的监禁中被判1年徒刑。我认为，根据他自己的著作，照片，家庭谱系和李维恩迄今不为人知的“ 1865年纪事”，我认为他的故事对犹太人和浸信会，黑人和“上色”，亚洲人和栗色以及各种各样的精英之间的关系提出了新的疑问。以及牙买加的非精英“白人”人口，这使我们超越了莫兰特湾叛乱的典型黑白对比框架，朝着更加多元化的方向强调帝国全球经济中的跨种族抗议和多派别抵抗。