NATIONAL HERO Samuel Sharpe was a complex character, for while he was a Baptist deacon who was given much latitude by his Baptist keepers to preach the word of the Lord, he was also preaching rebellion. The uprising which he inspired, but did not.
For over 300 years, Europeans enslaved Africans on the plantations of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Slavery was a brutal system of hard labour, the loss of lives and limbs of hundred of enslaved people, some of whom resisted from day one..