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The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. [1] The uprising was led by a black Baptist deacon ...
Jamaica's first political parties emerged in the late 1920s, while workers association and trade unions emerged in the 1930s. The development of a new Constitution in 1944, universal male suffrage, and limited self-government eventually led to Jamaican Independence in 1962 with Alexander Bustamante serving as its first prime minister. The ...
Immigration to Jamaica has historically affected the country in large ways as a result of the history of European colonization of the Americas. In the modern age, immigration is the responsibility of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), an agency of the Government of Jamaica . [ 1 ]
The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...
Charles Town, Jamaica, was established in the 1750s, after the destruction of Crawford's Town. Most of its new inhabitants were the supporters of Ned Crawford, who made up the majority of the Maroons in Crawford's Town. Scott's Hall, Jamaica, was a minor Maroon town that predated the destruction of Crawford's Town. In the 1750s, the supporters ...
The mansion at 105 Brattle Street was headquarters to Washington in the Revolution and, later, home to the poet Longfellow. William Vassall and His Son Leonard (c. 1771), John Singleton Copley, oil on canvas, DeYoung Museum. William Vassall (1715-1800) invested wealth from his Jamaican slave-labor plantation in New England.
The Glorious Revolution had restored the traditional enmity between Britain and France, thus ending the profitable collaboration between English Jamaica and French Tortuga. The devastation of Port Royal by an earthquake in 1692 further reduced the Caribbean's attractions by destroying the pirates' chief market for fenced plunder. [ 16 ]
Slavery in Jamaica was abolished on 1 August 1834 with the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act.The act also stipulated that all formerly enslaved persons in Jamaica over the age of six would work as apprentices for a period of four to six years for their former enslavers, though British abolitionists protested against the apprenticeship system and it was fully abolished by 1 August 1838.