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Morant Bay, St Thomas

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The St Thomas capital, indelibly associated with Paul Bogle and the 1865 rebellion — an event that runs through Jamaican consciousness and its music, invoked whenever the music reaches for the history of resistance. St Thomas is also Kumina country, and that drumming tradition feeds the island's rhythmic vocabulary.

Court House and the Paul Bogle statue, Morant BayMichael L. Dorn · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source ↗

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