The Baptist War: The Christmas Rebellion.

On this day in 1831, Over 60,000 enslaved Jamaicans, led by one man, Baptist preacher, Samuel Sharpe, went on to carry out one of the largest Slave Rebellions in West Indian history.

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Good morning famm❤️🍀

"My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer."

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me when I'm beefing with the twink preacher from my town

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Preacher
Kind of a combination of Lilybell Cookie and Cherry Blossom Cookie
He's sort of like a therapist to everyone, being kind and sympathetic like Lilybell
But can also be very chaotic when he wants to

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Sam/Samson, Fay's late husband. He was the son of the preacher in town, well liked and well respected. He grew to resent Fay after he returned home from the war n attempted 2 stage her death. The truth of who he was/how he died has become clouded in local stories over the yrs

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joseph gilgun as cassidy in PREACHER (2016)

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It's hard to plant a
But there is a need for it, which will raise...
I'm treating what I am doing as an art performance, but the "seer and preacher" side of me is taking over.
My new substack is already more worth than my NFTart.
https://t.co/DShTycCCrO

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2 pieces of A4 art leftover from Inktober going cheap.
£35 each, includes UK p&p. Message or comment if interested.

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Day 8 and 9 i did for my list

I really like shiny gold, i cannot help it and whenever the theme was based on medieval religious paintings i cant resist drawing Conner 💀

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AAAAND LAST BUT NOT LEAST! Father Elias Fletcher, southern gothic preacher man who is Extremely Self Indulgent in literally everything about him. Thanks for bearing with my silly little october challenge, y’all!!!

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2 Nov 1634: Anne Hutchinson & outspoken preacher joined the church In Mar 1638, having challenged the theological views of the ministers she was tried for by Governor John Winthrop & others, branded a heretic and banished.

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Zipper and The Preacher.
Yes,the head is a cenobite too

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I do relish transgression + I deeply distrust conformity. Progress is not achieved by preachers + guardians of morality… rather by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, skeptics, comedians, artists etc.

I may be wrong, I am prepared to learn..
Paraphr-Cite

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Thanks Gabino and Happy Friday, Everyone! My new Halloween story "Loretta" is in latest issue of ! The Great put it best: "a tale of feral preachers & Old Testament hurricanes.." Thanks to all who read and thank you ! https://t.co/Mxvh1x7oId

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Day 27th. Meeting
Young Pepeline, relative of disappeared preacher, tells a version of legend about Claudandus, which he didn't tell at cult meetings: according to this, prophet wasn't killed by man who captured him. But vice versa.

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Also worth sharing while raising a glass to Steve Dillon is this panel from Preacher, where Jesse Custer breaks up the very first ComicsGate convention.

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