Conflicts & Resolutions · Revolt
Baptist War
The Baptist War, or Christmas Rebellion, was a rising of up to 60,000 enslaved people in western Jamaica that began on 25 December 1831. Led by the Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe, it started as a strike for wages and turned into an armed revolt in which many plantations were burned. It was crushed by early 1832 and hundreds were executed, but the reaction in Britain helped bring about the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
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