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Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp (1801 – 23 May 1832), [1] also known as Sam Sharpe, [2] was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica.
Sam Sharpe (affectionately called Daddy Sharpe) became a well-known preacher and leader in the Baptist Church. He was a deacon at the Burchell Baptist Church in Montego Bay, with Rev. Thomas Burchell (a missionary from England) as the pastor.
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe (or “Daddy Sharpe”) led a rebellion which led to the end of legal slavery in the British colony of Jamaica. Records of who his parents were have been lost. Sharpe was a slave of an English attorney and namesake who practiced in Montego Bay.
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]
Sam Sharpe wrote these words in a letter to the British Parliament from his jail cell in Jamaica. Sharpe, a Baptist deacon and lay preacher, faced execution for organizing and leading a rebellion of 60,000 enslaved persons — the largest such revolt in the British Caribbean.
Born in 1801 in the parish of St. James in Jamaica, Sam Sharpe was a slave of an English attorney. He got the privilege of education, was baptized and subsequently made a deacon of the...
A man before his time, Samuel Sharpe, Sam Sharpe or Daddy Sharpe saw the injustices of slavery and was sufficiently appalled and outraged to inspire his fellow slaves to participate in Jamaica’s first strike action taken by creole slaves.