Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834

by Mary Turner

Book Overview

On 27 December 1831 a fire on Kensington Estate in St James, Jamaica signalled the start of one of the largest slave revolts in the Caribbean. Its leaders were leaders also in the mission churches and the independent sects, and their followers expected the missionaries to support them in their bid for wage work and free status. The missionaries, however, sent to save souls from sin in the face of planter hostility, were explicitly committed to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766400458
• ISBN13: 9789766400453
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"