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Dove and Gardiner who were later to become two of Sharpe’s lieutenants were his fellow slaves at Cooper’s Hill. All three decided to borrow two horses from the property at Coopers hill and attend Baptist preacher Moses Baker church at Crooked Spring near Black Shop/ Sunderland. At the religious meeting he met Moses Baker for the first time and would later come under his tutelage and influence. Also of significance, he met a beautiful young lady named Nyami from Content Estate above Long Hill. ‘Nyami’ is the female Sky God of the Tonga People living in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Zimbabwe. She later bore him a daughter whom both agreed her African ancestral name would be Ruba which in Arabic means “green Hills”. It is timely to mention here that it was also at Moses Baker's church in January 1824 That Thomas Burchell and Sam Sharpe met for the first time.