ABSTRACT
JAMAICA STEPPED back from the traumas of the Morant Bay rebellion and its aftermath, but the island’s basic problems remained unsolved and its people’s grievances unanswered. Eyre was dismissed and returned to England. For his part, Henry Clarke returned to the humdrum routines of a parish priest, as well as teaching at Manning’s School for a time when his brother Edward returned to England in 1866. But he was never too busy to write characteristically peppery letters, to the press, to island officials and to friends.1 Most people outside western Jamaica knew him only through these letters, but visitors who met him face to face were left with a more favourable impression. According to two visitors who met him in 1866, Henry was ‘an earnest Christian Minister, of singular courage, disinterestedness and compassion’.2
