Jamaica Committee was a group set up in Great Britain in 1865 , which called for Edward Eyre , Governor of Jamaica , to be tried for his excesses in suppressing the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865 . More radical members of the Committee wanted him tried for the murder of British subjects ( Jamaica was at that time a Crown Colony ) , under the rule of law . The Committee included English liberals , such as John Bright , John Stuart Mill , Charles Darwin , Thomas Henry Huxley , Thomas Hughes , Herbert Spencer and A. V. Dicey , the last of whom would eventually become known for his scholarship on the Conflict of Laws
Morant Bay rebellion
Morant Bay rebellion
Jamaica Committee