The 1831 Jamaican rebellion’s suppression killed or exiled over 600 slaves

Evidence

Given the framework of the trial records we know too little of these slaves’ activities beyond the fact that many of them ended up like David Atkinson, “the Shell Blower,” whose trial disposition read: “Hanged by the Neck, til he is dead, dead, dead.” Just how many can never be known. But the official parish returns were horrible enough: 626 tried, 312 executed, 300 flogged, imprisoned for life or transported. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 817