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Paul Bogle
Photograph via Wikimedia Commons
Faith & Community Landmark

Paul Bogle

1822 – 1865

Leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Jamaica Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.

Why they are here

A Baptist deacon from Stony Gut in St Thomas who led a march on the Morant Bay courthouse in protest at injustice and poverty.

The protest of October 1865 turned into an uprising; the governor, Edward John Eyre, crushed it with hundreds of executions and floggings, and Bogle was hanged. The scale of the reprisals caused a political storm in Britain. Bogle was named a National Hero in 1969.
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