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    Jamaica 1831 revolt also know as "Baptiste war" or "Christmas War"

Good night my bloggy pies. Apologies for the late blogging. Today I would be discussing the Jamaica 1831 revolt in full details.

                  In Jamaica white public opinion was opposed to amelioration towards slave. This was because amelioration were laws that went to the betterment of slaves, meaning that the plantocracy would have to spend more money on slaves but since they viewed their slaves as properties they refused.  Before  the revolt began a slave in montego bay named Samuel sharpe also known as "Sam Sharpe was a baptiste preacher who was literate. He was also nigerian who belonged to the igbo tribe and was a a slave on kensington estate in St. James. Sam sharpe was a driver on the plantation, who drove his master around in what was called buggies or Carriages. With that being the case Sam sharpe had access to newspaper and would over hear conversations from his slave master with other plantation owners. Now, since Sam Sharpe was literate, he was able to read the newspaper that was left behind by his master and in one of those newspapers, he read that paid labour was coming Jamaica. It should be noted that Samuel Sharpe, misunderstood the imperial registry bill for emancipation. The difference is that the imperial registry was a law that required all plantation owners to register their slaves whilst emancipation is the freedom of slaves from their slave masters.

       Now with such news that Sam Sharpe read in the newspaper, he decided to spread the word to slaves on his plantation and other plantations. Since Sam Sharpe was a baptiste preacher, he had influence over many slaves and they listened to him.  Sam Sharpe told the slaves to strike and that they should not work until they are paid. This strike began on the 27th on december and so they did. It wasn't long  before the masters and the authorities that someone well acquainted with political developments in England and in Jamaica incited the slaves and they blamed Sam Sharpe. However he was not responsible for the revolt.The revolt began when a slave was forced to watch the flogging on his wife. He was unable to bear the sight of his wife being brutally flogged so he struck the whipper. The overseer ordered the slave to be arrested but the the other slaves refused because they understood the plight of the husband, thus the revolt began.  The revolt first began in kensington estate in St. James. During the revolt cane fields were burnt, and machineries was destroyed. The enslaved did this so that the sugar production would stop  and there would no colonial goods to ship to Europe and the plantocracy would have to spend loads of money to fix and buy new machineries.  The revolt quickly spread to neighbouring plantation and other parishes.

       By January the 50,000 slaves were in revolt because they believed that their masters was withholding their rightful freedom. The slaves were warned by white methodist missionary that the authorities would win. However, the slaves did not heed their warning. In the fighting 400 slaves were killed , 100 others, including Sam Sharpe was executed and another 100 were flogged.  These 100 slaves was only kept alive to work on the plantation to make example to other slaves and because the slave trade has ended. After he revolt plantation owners were compensated with 200,000(pounds) to buy and fix machineries to continue the production of sugar. The whites turned their vengeance on the missionaries because the missionaries preached constantly about love, equality and freedom to the enslaved and this fueled the slaves to revolt because they wanted to experience all these  that missionaries was preaching so the whites thought it necessary to get rid of the missionaries so that slaves would not be educated about freedom, love and equality.

      The 1831 revolt in jamaica was he most serious rebellion ever experienced in Jamaica, but it never had any chance of success since it was not a planned and the garden tools used by the enslaved such as machete, fork, spade and hoe had no match to the guns and ammunition the Whites had. Although the 1831-1832 revolt in Jamaica failed, it aroused the conscience of the British and further encouraged the government already determined to enforce emancipation throughout the colonies.

The diagram above is showing slaves a with a black driver. The man on the horse with carriage is what samuel sharpe did on the plantation. He would carry his master around using the Carriage and from there he would over hear conversations from his master and gain access to newspapers.

 The picture above is showing how the backs of slaves looked after they were flogged.

The picture above is showing a black slave flogging another black slave and other slaves are watching. This scene is similar to how the Jamaica  revolt started.  A slave was forced to watch his wife get flogged.

      Questions for you My Bloggy pies

1.Was Samuel Sharpe or Sam Sharpe the cause of the revolt?

2.What was the aim of Sam Sharpe?

3.Do you think the slave was wrong for striking the whipper? and would you have done the same in the slave position or not?

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