Bob Marley assassination attempt at National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley & The Wailers agreed to headline the peace concert. Bob Marley claimed to not be involved in Jamaican politics and had originally agreed to play one song at the concert on the condition that the concert wasn’t political. However, after Manley moved the elections up to within ten days of the concert, those loyal to both parties considered Marley’s “Smile Jamaica” song and concert to be an endorsement for the PNP. At 830 pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, seven men with guns raided Marley’s house
Protestantism in Jamaica They were a catalyst in transforming slave societies. They taught slaves how to read and write and worked to attract slaves to the word of God. There was not necessarily a positive response to missionaries in Jamaica. Missionaries tried to transform society and help slaves, but they ultimately failed because they did not attempt to understand African culture and were intolerant to the local culture they came into contact with. They also clashed with the plantocracy who were at the top of Jamaican society. The planters feared missionaries because their work threatened planter’s livelihood and status. If missionaries taught slaves