Did you know that Jamaicans successfully fought to pressure the eradication of slavery, Christmas 1831-1832?
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Leader, Sam Sharpe shared two things with many other black heroes, such as Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Cecile Fatiman and Toussaint Louverture and that was his faith and his intelligence.
Faith seems to encourage our heroes to find meaning in suffrage and their high levels of intelligence seems to enable them to communicate more clearly and plan their enormous feats.
Sam Sharpe was a baptist preacher who toured Jamaica, educating other African Jamaicans on the gospel. Many black preachers were given copies of the bible which did not include texts which may inspire rebellion. For example, Exodus was removed (see the slave bible). Like Nat Turner, Sam Sharpe gained access to these texts and was inspired to fight for freedom.
The Jamaicans knew that Haiti had been successfully freed by Toussaint Louverture and Jean Jaque Dessalines. They also knew that the abolition movement was gaining traction in British Parliament. On the Christmas of 1831, Sam Sharpe led a revolt of 60,000 Jamaicans against the British; first in peaceful protest and then in revolt.
Samuel Sharpe was captured and hung. His last words were “I would rather die on yonder gallows than live in slavery”
Slavery was abolished in the West Indies the following year.
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