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THE BAPTIST William Knibb arrived in Jamaica from England in 1825 at a time when missionaries were strongly advised not to interfere with the status quo. Civil and political matters were not their business. He had come as a teacher to Kingston to.
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.
Modern Jamaican socio-political violence has its genesis in the labour union movement.
Coming out of slavery, Jamaica, prior to Independence in 1962, was a de facto British colony. As a colony, .