Swift action on the part of Governor MacGregor succeeded in suppressing the matter, and the emancipation pursued its course. At which point he was at first mildly jostled, then set upon and massacred, together with his family, by the Negroes, who that same evening repaired to their cabins, their palavers, their labors, and customary rituals.
But Glenelg, either from timidity or because he was scrupulous, or simply afraid of the law, refused to be swayed. An Anabaptist minister, acting as spokesman for the group, read out a list of grievances which he had compiled and recorded in a notebook. About two hundred Negroes of both sexes, all of whom had recently been emancipated by the Proclamations of March, came one morning to beg their former master, a certain Glenelg, to take them back into bondage. In the course of the year 1838, the peaceful island of Barbados was rocked by a strange and bloody revolt. By Jean Paulhan of l’Académie Française A Revolt in Barbados
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