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Sam Sharpe's planned strike escalates into the Baptist War

📅 27 December 1831

Armed rebellion spread through Jamaica's western parishes after enslaved workers began refusing plantation labor. Baptist deacon Sam Sharpe had organized a mass strike to demand freedom and wages; the...