circa 1820 – 23rd October 1865 George William Gordon was a Jamaican politician and businessman. His father was a Scottish planter who was an attorney to several sugar estates in Jamaica. George’s mother was an enslaved woman called Ann Rattray.…
1822- 24th October 1865 Paul was born a free man around 1822 in a small village called Stony Gut, Jamaica. Stony Gut was a farming community where Paul owned land himself. Paul was friends with George William Gordon, we will…
At Adeptales, we like to shed light on hidden Black heroes. Here we learn about a formerly enslaved man who went on to mentor Charles Darwin. Guyana John Edmonstone was born on a plantation in Guyana. This was owned by…
