The destruction of the Roehampton Estate in January 1832. (Adolphe Duperly / Wikimedia Commons) Originally Published in Jacobin on December 25, 2022 On Christmas Day in 1831, 60,000 enslaved Africans carried out the largest uprising in British West Indies history. Their uprising would prove a milestone on the road to emancipation only a few years […]

When Jamaican Slaves Rebelled on Christmas Day / by Perry Blankson