Smile Jamaica Concert of the concert series. Stir It Up: The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government, an alternative historical novel by David Dusty Couples, weaves fact and fiction to dramatize the concert. The novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James dramatizes the attempt on Marley's life, including other events leading up to the Smile Jamaica concert. Smile Jamaica Concert The Smile Jamaica Concert was a concert held on December 5, 1976, at the National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica, performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley originally agreed to perform one song for the 80,000
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