Baptist War

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 Jamaica. The uprising was led by a black Baptist deacon, Samuel Sharpe, and waged largely by his followers. The revolt, though militarily unsuccessful, played a major part in the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.

Baptist War
Part of North American slave revolts

Destruction of the Roehampton Estate, January 1832, during the Baptist War, by Adolphe Duperly
Date25 December 1831-5 January 1832
Location
Colony of Jamaica
Result Rebellion suppressed
Belligerents
Colony of Jamaica Slave rebels
Commanders and leaders
Willoughby Cotton Samuel Sharpe
Casualties and losses
None ~500 people dead
Part of a series on
North American slave revolts
Attack and capture of the Crête-à-Pierrot (Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot, March 1802) in the Haitian Revolution by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Ernest Hébert
Context
Before 1700

(Santo Domingo)

  • 1526 San Miguel de Gualdape

(Spanish Florida, victorious)

(Real Audiencia of Panama, New Spain, suppressed)

(Veracruz, New Spain, victorious)

(New Spain, suppressed)

  • 1616 Tepehuán Revolt

(New Spain, suppressed)

  • 1680 Pueblo Revolt
(Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain, victorious)
18th century
  • 1712 New York Slave Revolt

(British Province of New York, suppressed)

(British Jamaica, victorious)

(British Chesapeake Colonies, suppressed)

  • 1731 Samba rebellion

(Louisiana, New France, suppressed)

(Danish Saint John, suppressed)

  • 1739 Stono Rebellion

(British Province of South Carolina, suppressed)

  • 1741 New York Conspiracy

(British Province of New York, suppressed)

  • 1760–61 Tacky's Revolt

(British Jamaica, suppressed)

  • 1768 Montserrat slave rebellion

(British Montserrat, suppressed)

(British Bahamas, suppressed)

  • 1791 Mina Conspiracy

(Louisiana, New Spain, suppressed)

  • 1795 Pointe Coupée Conspiracy

(Louisiana, New Spain, suppressed)

(Dutch Curaçao, suppressed)

(French Saint-Domingue, victorious)
19th century

(Virginia, suppressed)

(St. Simons Island, Georgia, victorious)

(Virginia, suppressed)

(Territory of Orleans, suppressed)

(Spanish Cuba, suppressed)

(Virginia, suppressed)

(British Barbados, suppressed)

(South Carolina, suppressed)

  • 1825 Great African Slave Revolt

(Cuba, suppressed)

  • 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion

(Virginia, suppressed)

(British Jamaica, suppressed)

  • 1839 Amistad, ship rebellion

(off the Cuban coast, victorious)

  • 1841 Creole case, ship rebellion

(off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious)

(Indian Territory, suppressed)

(Spanish Cuba, suppressed)

(Virginia, suppressed)
Notable leaders
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