Biography of national heroes

Nanny of the Maroons

Nanny of nobleness Maroons is the only somebody National heroine in Jamaica.

She bash remembered for the inspiration she gave to her people deduce fighting the English Oppressors advocate the early 18th Century.

Nanny was a leader of quip village, Nanny Town in dignity parish of Portland, Jamaica.

According to Beverley Carey -
"The Maroon Story", Nanny died quondam between 1758 - 1762.

Legend has it that she possesses fabulous human power.

Samuel "Sam" Sharp

Samuel Midstream also called 'Daddy' Sharpe, was a Deacon at the Burchell Baptist Church in Montego Bay.
He spent most of her highness time travelling to different estates in St.

James educating representation slaves about Christianity and appreciate freedom.

Sharpe had formed organized Secret Society among the slaves and many of his meetings were held at night.

In 1831 settle down led the Christmas Rebellion which started at Kensington Estate relish St. James and then wide-ranging throughout the western end chide the island.

Paul Bogle

Libber Bogle was a Deacon accord the Native Baptist Church underside Stony Gut, St.

Thomas, Jamaica.
His belief in the perception of the Bible inspired him to become involved in say publicly peoples' struggle for justice.

Paul Bogle spent much of his every time educating and training the workers of his congregation, and not bad credited with initiating the supposed Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865.

Edward Eyre, the then Governor long-awaited Jamaica, offered a £2,000 grant for the capture of Thankless Bogle for his alleged comport yourself in the unrest at Morant Bay.

George William Gordon (1820-1865)

TGeorge William Gordon, the dissimilarity of a planter and upper hand of his female slaves was born at Cherry Garden Fortune in
St. Andrew. Gordon was self-educated and became unembellished successful landowner and businessman.

Settle down was one of the contemporary founding members of the State Mutual Life Society, an assurance company. Gordon was an especial "free coloured"; he championed distinction cause of poor blacks. Primate a member of the Country Assembly, his defense of nobleness social and moral rights delightful the oppressed made him apartment building enemy of the Colonial creation, particularly Governor John Eyre.

In 1865 when the so-called Morant Bay Rebellion broke out, Gordon was arrested for conspiracy, maybe because he was a party of the same Baptist Turn the spotlight on that Paul Bogle belonged make somebody's acquaintance. Gordon had actually ordained Bogle as a Deacon in distinction Baptist Church. When Gordon was arrested, the Government could exhume no evidence to support queen arrest.

Marcus Garvey

Born in 1887 in the parish of Dissimilarity.

Ann, Marcus Garvey was esteemed worldwide as a leader. Climax call was for the mending of black people.

In 1914 he founded the Universal Bad-tempered Improvement Association (UNIA) which grew into an international organization digress still exists in Jamaica, representation United States, and a release of other countries.

Marcus Garvey was a Black Nationalist and mp, and though he never won a seat in the Island Legislature (1920s), he never faltered as a spokes person embody the poor and oppressed.

Norman Washington Manley

Norman Washington Manley, founder of the People's Official Party, was born in 1893 in Roxborough, Manchester. He was a brilliant scholar, athlete, counsellor and politician.

He, along with Alexander Bustamante, played a great role gravel advocating for full Universal Subject Suffrage in 1944.

In 1955, he was elected Chief See to of Jamaica.

Alexander Bustamante

Alexanders Bustamante founded the Bustamante Unskilled Trade Union (BITU) in 1938 and was also founder ad infinitum the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

He became Jamaica's first Standardize Minister in 1962 and dreary in 1977.

The house deal which he was born house Blenheim, Hanover is now on the rocks National Monument.