The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in …

2023年12月25日 · The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was a major uprising of enslaved Africans in the British colony of Jamaica, which lasted for eleven days and involved as many as 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves on the island, making it the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies.

2017年7月22日 · The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. It was considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.

2022年12月13日 · The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica.

The Baptist War (so called because Sharpe was a Baptist deacon) was one of the largest slave rebellions in the British West Indies and contributed to Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1833.

2018年12月7日 · A short account of the Baptist War, the revolt by Jamaican slaves in 1831 that forced the British Empire to abolish slavery within its borders in the aftermath.

2020年5月28日 · Jamaica’s enslaved population was among the most abused and powerless on the globe in 1831. Most were illiterate. Few had ever seen anything but their owner’s plantation. Their only weapons were machetes and rocks. They constantly lived on the edge of hunger and harsh punishment.

In the week before Christmas 1831, a strike by slaves in Jamaica escalated into the largest slave rebellion the island had ever seen. The slaves were certain that the British government was about to grant their freedom, and that the New Year would usher a new period of freedom.

There are several reasons for the 1831 revolt in Jamaica. One of the main reasons given for the revolt was that the enslaved was led to believe that emancipation was being withheld. In Jamaica reports spread among the slaves that their "free paper" had come from England but their masters were holding them in bondage.

4 天之前 · The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was a pivotal event in the history of Jamaica and the broader British Caribbean. This eleven-day rebellion, which took place in 1831–1832, involved as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves, making it the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean at ...