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A major reason for the decline was the British Parliament's 1807 abolition of the slave trade, under which the transportation of slaves to Jamaica after 1 March 1808 was forbidden. The abolition of the slave trade was followed by the abolition of slavery in 1834 and full emancipation of slaves within
Founded as a Free Village for emancipated slaves, it was a mid-1830s initiative of the congregation of the Baptist pastor Rev. Thomas Burchell, whose deacon was Sam Sharpe, executed in 1832 after the Baptist War slave rebellion until he died for the cause of abolition and freedom. Today the Free Village's playing field is named 'Burchell Field ...
It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution was finally abolished, but on a gradual basis. [30] Since slave owners in the various colonies (not only the Caribbean) were losing their unpaid labourers, the government set aside £20 million for compensation but it did not offer the former slaves any reparations. [31] [32]
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]
After the abolition of slavery in Jamaica in the 1830s, Igbo people also arrived on the island as indentured servants between the years of 1840 and 1864 along with a majority Kongo and "Nago" people. [17] Since the 19th century most of the population African Jamaicans had assimilated into the wider Jamaican society. [citation needed]
In 1838, all black people in Jamaica were emancipated, but in post-slavery Jamaica they continued to be excluded from the reins of power. A number of free black Jamaicans campaigned for political, social, educational and economic rights, until they succeeded in securing independence for the island in 1962. [citation needed]
Thomas Burchell (1799–1846) was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Montego Bay, Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. He was among an early group of missionaries who went out from London in response to a request from African Baptists on the island.
The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was ultimately passed. Even though slavery was abolished in 1833, there remained a systematic failure to grant equality to the newly freed slaves. The underlying motives of Britain was apparent in their immediate efforts to compensate the slave owners first which gave them the power to dictate such institutions ...