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Paul Bogle
Paul Bogle - Jamaica National Hero
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Jamaica National Heroes7 - Paul Bogle, it is believed, was born free about 1822.
He was a Baptist Deacon in Stony Gut St Thomas, a few miles north of Morant Bay, and was eligible to vote at a time when there were only 104 voters in the parish of St. Thomas.
He was a firm political supporter of George William Gordon.
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Poverty and injustice in the society and lack of public confidence in the central authority, urged Bogle to lead a protest march to the Morant Bay courthouse on October 11, 1865. |
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In a violent confrontation with full official forces that followed the march, nearly 500 people were killed and a greater number was flogged and punished before order was restored.
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Paul Bogle was hunted down by the British with the aid of the Maroons captured and on October 24, 1865 and hanged on the same day; but his forceful demonstration achieved its objectives. |
It paved the way for the establishment of just practices in the courts and it brought about a change in official attitude, which made possible the social and economic betterment of the people.
Source: Jamaica Information Service (JIS)
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