This painting, by Adolphe Duperly, depicts the devastation of the Roehampton plantation during the Jamaican slave rebellion, known as the Baptist War, which took place in 1831-1832.
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For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back by Ana Lucia Araujo
During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays.
