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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...
A Baptist preacher who lived in bondage in colonial Georgia would go on to help wipe out the final vestiges of slavery in the British Empire.
MEMBERS OF the Anglican, Moravian and Baptist churches were owners of enslaved Africans who were subjected to their every whim and fancy. They believed nothing was wrong with chattel slavery, and even used scriptures to support it. Not only were...
SLAVERY-DAY MAGISTRATES, some of whom were planters themselves, were full of rancor against the Christian missionaries who opposed and campaigned against slavery. The bitterness, festering for decades, came to a head after the 1831 Sam Sharpe...
IN THE years leading up to the Sam Sharpe Rebellion of 1831 and right after, pro-slavery conformists, including members of the Anglican Church, and anti-slavery agitators, including Christian missionaries, clashed all over Jamaica, with the former...