Source B

“All of us are familiar with the name of the principal leader, now a Jamaica National Hero, Samuel Sharpe. But we must hear and know the names of other men and women who so valiantly fought and gave their all for our freedom: men like Samuel Cunningham; William M’Kinley; Linton; William Binham; William Wilson of Wickham; Robert Brown of Spur Tree; Samuel Boucher of Malbro Mount; Thomas Cole, William Proudlove, and William Sterling of Bullhead; Ellick of Glenhead; William French of Skiddaw; Thomas Lamb of Moreland; Richard Lewis of Berry Hill; Joseph Melville of Content; James Miller of Hopetont; and women like Ann James, Eliza Whittingham, Jane Whittingham, and Kitty Scarlet, who were sentenced to death.

For were it not for each and every one of their sacrifices, we may not be enjoying the joys of freedom we so often take for granted.”



Historian
Verene Shepherd