Week 4 – Lesson 1

Grade: 4
Date: October 5, 2020
Subject: Religious Education
Topic: The Missionaries and Indentured Workers
 
 

The Missionaries   

A few years after the African slaves were brought to Jamaica,
the Missionaries arrived on the island.
They were mostly Methodists, Moravians, Baptists
and Presbyterians.
The Missionaries taught the slaves to read and write.
They built churches on the island for the slaves to worship
and hoped that when they learned about their religion that
the slaves would be converted.
The Missionaries also helped some of the slaves to become
land owners by giving them pieces of land as gifts.
The Indentured Workers
The slaves were free to do as they pleased when slavery
was abolished in 1838 so many chose not to
work on the plantations.
This resulted in a labour shortage.
The Plantation owners had to seek workers from
countries such as India, Israel, Pakistan,  Saudi Arabia,
China and other places in the Middle East.
Each set of worker took with them their own religious
practices and beliefs.
These workers were known as Indentured  Workers.
They were either free persons or prisoners who had to
give forced labour for a number of years.
Below are the religions practiced by each group of Indentured worker.

Countries

Religion

Israel
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
India
India, Pakistan
India
China

Judaism
Islam
Hinduism
Sikhism
Buddhism
Taoism