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 Jamaica. African Americans also played a role in spreading the Protestant faith in Jamaica. George Liele was a former slave from Georgia who made his way to Jamaica. He was recognized as the first successful venture of Christianity among the enslaved in Jamaica. He began Baptist work on the island in the mid-eighteenth century, meaning he was in Jamaica before English and Anglo-American missionaries. At the time Liele was working with slave communities, he was met with opposition from established groups such as the state church and the Church of England. As Liele and his Baptist followers were spreading out