Morant Bay is a town in southeastern Jamaica and the capital of the parish of St. Thomas.
In 1867 it was the starting point of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the only major peasant revolt (as distinguished from slave rebellions and worker uprisings), in Jamaican history.
Its sister city is Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada.
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Famous quotes containing the word bay:
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)