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SLAVERY-DAY MAGISTRATES, some of whom were planters themselves, were full of rancor against the Christian missionaries who opposed and campaigned against slavery. The bitterness, festering for decades, came to a head after the 1831 Sam Sharpe.
IN THE years leading up to the Sam Sharpe Rebellion of 1831 and right after, pro-slavery conformists, including members of the Anglican Church, and anti-slavery agitators, including Christian missionaries, clashed all over Jamaica, with the former.
LLOYD A. COOKE is well known in missionary circles, being a missionary himself, and is regarded a font of knowledge, especially when it comes on to the history of missionary work in Jamaica. He is a well-respected religion historian/researcher and.