On December 27, 1831, enslaved Africans in Jamaica didn't stage a rebellion—they launched a war that would bring the British Empire to its knees

MONTEGO BAY, St, James, December 26, 2025 - The flames that consumed Tulloch Castle sugar estate on the night of December 27, 1831, illuminated more than the Jamaican sky. They exposed the fundamental lie at the heart of British colonial economics: that slavery was sustainable, that the enslaved would accept their bondage indefinitely, that freedom could be perpetually deferred.