Samuel Sharpe's Slave Revolt

Date: December 25, 1831 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1831.

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

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. Baptists generally recognize at least two sacraments or ordinances: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.