Charles Dickens' Victorian Values

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

In 1865 there was a cataclysmic social explosion in a Caribbean colony of Jamaica that had a profound impact on English society and severely questioned Victorian liberal values. Celebrated novelist, Charles Dickens’ support for the genocidal Governor of Jamaica in the Morant Bay rebellion was by no means abnormal and in a context where issues of race, empire and morality were subjects of debate in Victorian England.

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