Title page from The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays

Vol. 1 of the 33 vol. Collected Works contains Mill’s autobiography and some literary essays mostly from the 1830s.

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Colonies, Slavery & Abolition

A disturbance in Jamaica, provoked in the first instance by injustice, and exaggerated by rage and panic into a premeditated rebellion, had been the motive or excuse for taking hundreds of innocent lives by military violence or by sentence of what were called courts martial, continuing for weeks…