Reverend George William Gordon, Jamaican insurrectionist, November, 1865, artist's impression

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Scanned by

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

08/03/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 14, 2015.

Depicted ContentAfter the Morant Bay riots, Jamaica's Governor John Eyre hangs his main legislative critic for high treason

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Rev. George W. Gordon, Ringleader of the Jamaica Riots.

Source citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, December 2, 1865, p. 757.

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