Jamaica: The road to Freedom
A statement made by William Knibb, a non-conformist Baptist preacher an abolitionist, at the dawning of Aug 1, 1838 Reflects the mood in Jamaica in relation to emancipation. "The hour is at hand, the Monster is dying...in recounting the mood in his church that night he said- "the winds of freedom appeared to have been set loose, the very building shook at the strange yet sacred joy."


According to the Jamaican Gleaner: Freedom can be said to have arrived in two stages; the first being the early morning of Friday, August 1, 1834. On that day many slaves were said to have walked up hills and climbed trees so as to clearly witness the literal dawning of their freedom. Around the island thousands attended "Divine Services" to give thanks and praise. August 1, 1834, marked the emancipation of all slaves in British colonies but it was a case of freedom with conditions. Although the Abolition Act stated that slavery shall be and is hereby utterly abolished and unlawful, the only slaves truly freed were those not yet born and those under six years of age. All other slaves were to enter a six-year 'apprenticeship' during which they were to be 'apprenticed' to the plantations.

In light of the apprenticeship program implemented after slavery can it be accurately stated that slavery was abolished in Jamaica and the British West Indies in 1838??
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Jamaica: Slavery to Emancipation

For many people today the thought of coming to Jamaica brings one word to the lips; paradise. when one thinks of the sunny beaches with the white sandy shores acting as a stripe to the never ending blue waters.
  
Then on to the miles of nylon like smooth roads and the myriad of dishes and cuisines which continually seduce even the most unsuspecting pallates. All of this coupled with other facts make Jamaica the place to be in 2014,



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but follow me back to some 200 years ago, when the top source of income for the British West Indies was the trade of black Africans know as the trans Atlantic slave trade. Many primitive young Africans would be abducted in the most violent ways from the village and put on a slave ship to the Americas where they would spend the remnants of their days in bitter slavery.
  

WHAT IS THE REACTIONS OF PRESENT DAY JAMAICANS TO SLAVERY? PLEASE SHARE YOUR ANSWERS?

It was the year 1494, when the world as we know it today did not exist. far from the commercial mecca of Europe and even further from civilization was a little piece of land surrounded completely by water. Inhabited at that time by a group of primitive dwellers whose fore parents had settled there years before and so it was by default the only home they knew. there they lived peaceful, unmolested, untried and untroubled, if ever in these ancient times a definition of heaven on earth was needed then one in almost total accuracy could be given by these people, but as the biblical account of the interruption in heaven (Rev 12:7), so paradise for these people were interrupted, "...and there was no longer peace in Jamaica, Christopher Columbus and his men came, and disrupted the lives of the Arawak natives, and they died...'Before too long the Spanish settled in jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872. In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670. These were in truth the first Jamaicans... So here concertized in the walls of history is the first block of the structure Jamaica.

 (PLEASE CONTINUE TO VIEW MY BLOGS TO SEE THE HISTORY OF JAMAICA BEING TRACES IN PARAGRAPHS)

Coming soon: "The other Jamaicans; Slavery to emancipation"   

         

                

Follow me to the middle of the Caribbean sea, surrounded on all angles by the lush waters which is vivid displayed from the outer layers of earth, complimenting the watery icing which serves as a cote of blue on the cake of the West indies is a heavenly dash of green is the miniature paradise Island of Jamaica, 'in the heart of it all' is a just statement used to describe this island nation, in that Jamaica has failed in no way to make world headlines in the past, highlighting many a negative thing, crime violence and such like, even a string of positive is seen in the athletic prose that is displayed by Jamaicans in track and field, but in this instance another representation of Jamaica is seen, a place of many lost soul, where post modernism and secularism is pervading, and there is little or no godliness existing, but ah, God still works through his few chosen, a man of God: evangelist "Thunder" brings truth to a people in need of God's grace knowing, that Jamaica is a place to go to spread the gospel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_DRN5QTmk   

There has always been a deep rooted desire from a child to share my faith with others, whenever the opportunity was given to me to do such, I take it with a glad heart. having made the transition into manhood the desire has turned into a passion and probably a way of life, hence i have entered into the ministry, and nothing is more fulfilling than to impact lives positively through ministry, so hey, do not be reserved or failing in making a positive mark on someone's life!!!