{"id":10705,"date":"2016-12-29T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2016-12-29T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:46:52","slug":"christmas-resistance-slavery-americas-yesenia-barragan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/12\/christmas-resistance-slavery-americas-yesenia-barragan.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas&#8221;: Yesenia Barragan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for the African-American Intellectual History Society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christmas season also gave way to the largest slave rebellion in the history of the British Caribbean known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/gah\/sharpe-samuel-ca-1780-1832\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christmas Rebellion (or the Baptist War)<\/a>. During ten days in late December 1831 into January 1832, nearly 60,000 slaves (about 20% of the enslaved population of 300,000) led by the black Baptist preacher Samuel Sharpe went on strike and rebelled against plantation owners, demanding freedom and higher wages. According to Michael Craton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100487360\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Testing the Chains: Resisting Slavery in the British West Indies <\/em>(1982)<\/a>, about 500 slaves were brutally killed by the end of the Christmas Rebellion, which Craton argues accelerated the process of emancipation in the British Caribbean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/christmas-and-resistance-to-slavery-in-the-americas\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for the African-American Intellectual History Society: The Christmas season also gave way to the largest slave rebellion in the history of the British Caribbean known as the Christmas Rebellion (or the Baptist War). 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