The Sam Sharpe Lectures: History, Rebellion and Reform

Celebrating ten years of the annual Sam Sharpe Lectures, this text is a collection of a decade's contribution from scholars, thinkers, activists, and ministers responding to the legacy of Sam Sharpe, a Jamaican National Hero. This text documents these moving, insightful and mobilising contributions and seeks to capture how Sharpe's legacy inspires action for justice in the 21st century. Rooted in a radical Jamaican narrative, The Sam Sharpe Lectures collectively demonstrate how Sharpe's legacy can inspire all people to be game-changers despite life's challenges. Sam Sharpe was enslaved, yet through a grounding in Christian faith, compassion, justice, and self-determination became an agent for transformation, and these lectures translate his legacy into tools for today's injustices.

•Lectures from some of the leading voices in racial justice from within the church and beyond, including Robert Beckford and the late Joel Edwards•The legacy of Sam Sharpe provides a fascinating and provocative jumping-off point for each lecture•Based on the popular annual ‘Sam Sharpe Lectures’, which attract an audience of over 1000 (online and in person) each year.

Eleasah P. Louis is a Postdoctoral research assistant at Birkbeck, University of London

Rosemarie Davidson is the founder of the Sam Sharpe Lectures and a freelance Cross-Cultural Understanding facilitator and coach.