“Tombstones erected at Beaufort Moravian Church (BMC) serve as reminder of persons who would have fanned an ever-burning flame for 190 years. These tombstones highlight the founding workers of the church which was established in 1834 as an.
THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN preacher George Liele (Lisle) established the first Baptist church in Jamaica, along Windward Road in Kingston. He and some of his own converts were to establish more church across the island, mainly in the east and north of.
Paul H. Williams Sunday Gleaner Writer DURING THE American War of Independence, enslaved black people were promised their freedom if they fought for the British against the separatists. When the British lost the war, these enslaved people who.
Baptist Reverend Thomas Burchell arrived in Jamaica from England in 1822 and quickly developed a deep hatred for slavery. He was instrumental in convincing the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) and other social organisations to lobby the British.
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.