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The Religious Beliefs Of Jamaica In The 1790s

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The main religious belief in the island nation of Jamaica is Christianity. In the 1790’s, George Lisle and Moses Baker, who were freed slaves, arrived in Jamaica and built a massive following in Kingston and Western Jamaica. This was a problem, however, because the African-Jamaicans of the sugar plantations were not allowed to attend school or church, and certainly not allowed to read the bible. However, this all began to change when in the 1820’s when white baptist missionaries started to flood the country. They became the teacher of the African-Jamaicans, allowing them to“no longer the only ones who had been slaves”, sharing the “Jewish experience of having been an oppressed people”. Due it’s massive Christian population, Jamaica hold the
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