Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

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Entries for the tag ‘Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32’

An eleven-day rebellion that commenced on Christmas Day, 1831: led by a black Baptist deacon, Samuel Sharpe, and waged largely by his followers, it involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica.

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