Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge my teacher Miss Michelle Dowden who guided myself and the rest of my
class through the process of this project, and whose patience enabled me to complete this. I would also
like to thank my parents; without their support this would not be possible.
Rationale
The researcher chose this topic because the researcher wants to know if the three main revolt in the 18 th
century did play a role in the ending slavery on the 1st August ,1833 in the British Caribbean.
In addition, the researcher would like to find out if these three results were successful.
Methodology
The researcher will be gathering information from primary and secondary resources to complete this
SBA. The researcher would have an interview with the history teacher of Zeeburg Secondary School on
the 7th April,2019. The researcher would also use the Zeeburg Secondary School library and also the
National Library to gather information form the text book on topic selecting.
Preface
The question chosen by the researcher is to find out if the three main revolt in the 18th century played a
significant role ending slavery.
Research Essay
The 1816 rebellion was cause when the British Slave Trade was abolished in the 1807 and the slave
mistook it for emancipation.There was a register or enrollment measure or besides called enrollment of
slaves(1812-1815) in which plantation owners or proprietors had to register their slaves, this was passed
so as to register their slaves, this was passed so as to halt inordinate penalty every bit good as the illegal
sale of slaves. The plantation owners were infuriated over the passing of this measure and saw it as
intervention in their domestic personal business. The slaves misinterpreted this as being angry about a
program for their emancipation.
Other causes of the rebellion were that a free colored adult male called Washington Franklin read
newspaper studies of the anti-slavery arguments, harsh intervention inflicted by the white society –desire
for long lasting freedom and retaliation and some slaves who were literate such as Nanny Grigg had
entrée to local and English newspaper from which they learnt about what was going on in England, Haiti
and elsewhere. An able leader emerged among the slave that is Bussa, an African Born slave. This
rebellion was chiefly fueled by the planters’ refusal to accept the Slave Registration Bill. The fact that the
slaves felt their Emancipation was being withheld from them and the thoughts of freedom and equality
being cultivated in the heads of the slaves’ head by non-conformists Missionaries. The slaves believed
emancipation had been granted. misidentifying it for the Registration Bill (which stated that all slaves had
to be accounted for so no smuggling went on) and revolted.
Consequences of the revolt was that Bussa and Jackey started the revolt in April,1816. The revolt would
then spread quickly to areas such as St. Philip St John and St George. Within days, martial law was
declared and Bussa was killed. Almost 200 enslaved Africans were killed ,200 executed and another 100
enslaved people exiled to Serria Leone.
The slave revolt in Demerara,Guyana. started on a sugar plantation called “plantation success” on the east
shore of the settlement of August 23rd. It spread throughout the nearby country to affect slaves from at
least 55 plantations. In entire around 10 thousand of the about 75 slaves who lived in to settlement rose in
violent rebellion against their oppressors. The rebellion would have been larger, nevertheless had the
slaves succeed in their end distributing the rebellion to the western proportion to the settlement. As it was
was the rebellion still alarmed the local plantation owners sufficiently to react rapidly and with utmost
force.Using both army units and local reserves.The plantation owners and colonial functionaries killed
several hundred of the arising slaves and imprisoned 100s more to stand test and face executing within
years the rebellion had been put down .Two elements made the Demerara Revolt instead unusual.First ,it
mostly consisted of and was chiefly led by Creole slaves.This upset the traditional British impression that
although the wilder African-born slaves might revolt. The creole slaves were more docile and accepting
of their destiny .
Underlying cause was that the enslaved people believed that their “free paper” was being withheld by the
island’s governor. The consequences of the revolt were that enslaved Africans refused to return to work
until verification of claims of a ‘free paper’ had been provided. In ensuring violence, more than 100
slaves were killed; several others were executed after holding court martial.
There had been a number of rebellions by enslaved Africans on the island of Jamaica. Sixteen slave
rebellions had taken place between 1655 and 1813. There were also major uprisings in 1816 and 1823. By
the 1820s, more than 2500 enslaved people were escaping from the plantations each year.1831 saw the
largest slave uprising. It started with the enslaved people refusing to work. The strike was meant to be
peaceful, with the aim of forcing the owners to pay the enslaved people to cut the cane so it would not
spoil. Things soon escalated. Enslaved Africans burnt down houses and warehouses full of sugar cane,
causing over a million pounds’ worth of damage. More than 200 plantations in the north of Jamaica were
attacked as 20,000 enslaved people seized control of large chunks of land. The rebels were led by Samuel
Sharpe. The main rebellion lasted 10 days but it took British troops the whole of January, 1832 to restore
order. It resulted in the death of nearly 200 Africans and 14 British planters or overseers. However, the
repercussions of the rebellion were more terrible. Hundreds of the rebels were captured and over 750
were convicted, of which 138 were sentenced to death. Some were hanged, others were shot by firing
squad. Most of those who escaped the death sentence were brutally punished, sometimes so harshly that
they died anyway. Sharpe was executed in public.
The revolt was very important and helped to end British slavery. It also shocked the British government
and made them see that the costs and dangers of keeping slavery in the West Indies were too high. It
reminded many of the St Domingue rebellion.There were fears of another major rebellion on Jamaica and
many terrified plantation owners were now ready to accept abolition, rather than risk a widespread war.
Just one week after Sharpe's death, Parliament appointed a committee to consider ways of ending slavery.
The causes of the Jamaica,1831 revolt was the wide spread belief that freedom was being withheld by the
local authorities. The activities of nonconformist missionaries among the enslaved population was also
another factor .
Consequences of the revolt was that Sam Sharpe’s civil disobedience quickly evolved from a general
strike on the Kensington Estate (St. Jamaica) into an open revolt .It would quickly spread to several
parishes such as Trelawney ,Hanover, Westmoreland and St Elizabeth .The 1831 rebellion is symbolic as
it was the largest and most widespread of the rebellion in the British Caribbean and it was the last major
revolt in the British Caribbean before emancipation .It resulted in over 100 enslaved persons being
executed ,including Sharpe, and 100 flogged. Several Baptist and Moravian Missionaries were persecuted
as well as their churches/Chapels destroyed.