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A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.

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Baptists

Denomination of Protestant Christianity

Baptists are a Protestant tradition of Christianity distinguished by baptizing only believers and doing so by total immersion. Modern Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency, sola fide, sola scriptura and congregationalist ecclesiastical polity.…
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Samuel Sharpe

Jamaican slave-rebellion leader (1801–1832)

Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp, also known as Sam Sharpe, was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion in Jamaica.
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Baptist War

1831 failed slave rebellion in British-ruled Jamaica

The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of…
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