Resistance organized around Samuel Sharpe’s demand for freedom and paid labor developed into armed rebellion in western Jamaica. Colonial repression was severe. The struggle shows enslaved people actively destabilizing slavery, rather than abolition resulting only from parliamentary campaigning in Britain.
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The movement began around a refusal to work, demonstrating the political power of collective labor action even though confrontation escalated.
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