Historical Person

Sam Sharpe

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📍 Jamaica

Sam Sharpe

Gender: Male

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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...

Colonial authorities execute Sam Sharpe after the Baptist War

📅 23 May 1832

Sam Sharpe was executed in Montego Bay after the rebellion was suppressed. He had organized a strike intended to press for freedom and paid work, and became one of Jamaica's central symbols of...