The Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica (Analysis of the Events Surrounding the Revolt and Important People) by Lachlan McKenzie https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw This is about the Christmas Rebellion that happened in Jamaica. To fully explore how interconnected all of the events were, I created a dynamic chart. en-us 2020-12-11 16:29:36 UTC 2023-02-10 04:31:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Samuel Sharp's Speeches and Beliefs lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011510000 Samuel Sharp spread the interpretation that, under Christianity, white people had no more right to enslave black people than black people did to enslave white people.

He was known for being a powerful and influential speaker.

He came up with the idea to stop working around the time when the sugar canes would need to be cut as a form of protest.]]> 2020-12-11 21:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011510000 Cruelties of Slavery in Jamaica lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011514644 Slavery in Jamaica was harsh. Slaves would work 12-hour days and were punished using 10-foot-long whips. At every lash of the whip, blood could be seen spurting from the slave's back.]]> 2020-12-11 21:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011514644 The Revolt lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011514892 What was originally intended to be a passive protest by Samuel Sharp turned into a slave revolt with around 30 thousand slaves taking part after the planters denied their demands for a wage and for better working conditions.

Estates were burned down, livestock were killed, and properties were destroyed.]]> 2020-12-11 21:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011514892 Baptist Missions lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011556653 When Baptist missions like Henry Bleby arrived in Jamaica, they spread their religion among the slaves in hopes of reducing the chance of revolt.]]> 2020-12-11 22:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011556653 Slaves and Religion lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011558957 While slaves were not allowed to be Christian by other groups of  proselytizers, that changed when the Baptist missions came over.

The religion they practiced was a mix of Christian beliefs like equality and brother hood and mylanistic beliefs like a dislike of evil.]]> 2020-12-11 22:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011558957 The British Parliment lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011559616 2020-12-11 22:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011559616 Rumors of Britain Planning Emancipation lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011561142 These rumors were disproved by Lord Belmore, angering expectant slave populations.]]> 2020-12-11 22:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011561142 "The Christmas Rebellion" lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011562878 2020-12-11 22:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011562878 "Baptist War" lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011565098 The revolt was blamed on the proselytizing done by the Baptist missons, leading to the imprisonment of five of them.
Also, many of the slaves were baptists.]]> 2020-12-11 22:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011565098 Rebellion Meetings lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011566598 Slaves would meet in churches to discuss politics. This evolved into discussions of rebellion.]]> 2020-12-11 22:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011566598 Kensington Estate lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011574877 This was the first estate to be burned. It was set fire to on December 27th, 1831, two days after Christmas.]]> 2020-12-11 22:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011574877 The Black Regiment and Slave Militias lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011588785 The Black Regiment was one of the most notable slave militias.]]> 2020-12-11 22:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011588785 Wilberforce lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011626478 Someone who argued for emancipation to the British Parliament. Part of his argument was that slavery was anti-Christian.

He was influential among the slave population, with numerous songs being written about how he was going to free them.]]> 2020-12-11 23:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011626478 Corberand, Henry Oliver, and a Blood Oath lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011633994 In early 1834, Corberand testified to how a group of slaves had organized a plot of rebellion. He was a slave who managed to escape punishment by saying what the court wanted.

Nevertheless, his claims that Henry Oliver and a group of slaves had taken a blood oath were reinforced by testimony from the overseer.

This is an example of how slaves were planning for revolt.]]> 2020-12-11 23:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011633994 Mobility in the Enslaved Population lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011643637 Some slaves in leadership positions had the ability to travel from estate to estate, spreading news and information, including ideas of rebellion.

Henry Oliver was an example of such a person.]]> 2020-12-11 23:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011643637 "An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves of the West Indies" lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011662601 This was an appeal written by Wilberforce in an attempt to argue for emancipation,]]> 2020-12-11 23:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011662601 Henry Oliver lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011718293 (Note: has no available biography nor photographs.)]]> 2020-12-12 00:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011718293 Samuel Sharpe lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011725385 A preacher and field commander who is known as a national hero and is on Jamaican bank notes.
Born in 1801. Birthplace might be disputed. Could read.]]> 2020-12-12 00:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011725385 BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011737330 2020-12-12 00:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011737330 COLOR CODE lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011741436 RED: REVOLT
YELLOW: SLAVES/SLAVERY
BLUE: BRITIAIN
GREEN: RELIGION
PURPLE: ABOLITIONISM]]> 2020-12-12 00:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011741436 IMPORTANT LINK lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011743116 LINK TO PADLET CONNECTING POINTS TO BROADER THEMES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY]]> 2020-12-12 00:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011743116 lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011744859 2020-12-12 00:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011744859 Henry Bleby lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011751034 2020-12-12 01:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011751034 "Speech of Rev. Henry Bleby, missionary from Barbados, on the results of emancipation in the British West Indies colonies" lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011755608 A speech delivered by Bleby at the Celebration of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1859, a wing of one of the major activist groups involved in North American abolitionism in which he speaks on the success of the emancipation in Jamaica and on the realities of slavery.]]> 2020-12-12 01:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011755608 Three Militias lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011776560 In anticipation of a rebellion, the plantation owners had prepared three militias.]]> 2020-12-12 01:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011776560 Suspicions of Revolt lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011777356 Because of reports of conspiratorial behavior from slaves, the people in charge of plantations were wary of revolt.]]> 2020-12-12 01:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011777356 Executions lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011783896 626 tried, 312 executed]]> 2020-12-12 01:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011783896 The Act for the Abolition of Slavery (1833) lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011784218 2020-12-12 01:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011784218 Slave Population lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011789682 In Jamaica, there were more slaves than there were white people]]> 2020-12-12 01:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011789682 lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011792644 Depiction of the Roehamton estate being burned]]> 2020-12-12 01:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011792644 Colonel Johnson lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011895174 Colonel of the Black Regiment]]> 2020-12-12 04:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011895174 Military lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011896135 Because they had better gun power and were trained soldiers, the military ultimately quashed the revolt.]]> 2020-12-12 04:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011896135 Economic Stress lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011897515 There was a period of economic stress at the time which exacerbated political stress.]]> 2020-12-12 04:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011897515 Planters Cut Christmas Holiday lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011898650 2020-12-12 04:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011898650 Planters lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011899450 Planters were actively opposed to abolitionism, writing articles which angered slaves.]]> 2020-12-12 04:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011899450 Sir Willoughby Cotton lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011912900 2020-12-12 04:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011912900 Colonel Grignon lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011913375 2020-12-12 04:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011913375 200 deaths (slaves) lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011914822 2020-12-12 04:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011914822 Samuel Sharpe hung at Montenegro Bay lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011915871 "I would rather die upon Yonder Gallows than to live in Slavery"
(May 23rd, 1832)]]> 2020-12-12 04:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011915871 Encouraging Fear/Preventing Revolt lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011917504 The planters, in an effort to make sure the slaves would not revolt again, held public executions.

They also burned the chapels.]]> 2020-12-12 04:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011917504 British Abolitionism being a growing movement + lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011919448 2020-12-12 05:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011919448 lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011924975 Map of Destroyed Estates]]> 2020-12-12 05:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011924975 lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011926667 Samuel Sharpe on the $50 Jamaican note]]> 2020-12-12 05:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011926667 SEE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER lachlanmckenzie23 https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011956310 FOR LINK TO CONNECTION TO BROADER THEMES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY]]> 2020-12-12 06:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lachlanmckenzie23/qtczncphtybzjmcw/wish/1011956310