Jamaicans abroad
  • start here
    • gallery
    • contact and comment
  • in North America
    • ~ John Brown Russwurm
    • ~ Robert Campbell >
      • in the USA
      • in Africa
    • ~ Robert Sutherland
    • ~ Susan Agnes Bernard >
      • from Jamaica
      • on to Canada
      • Lady Macdonald >
        • two songs
        • Ladies Home Journal article
      • Baroness Macdonald >
        • Sources and links
    • ~ Shackleton Balm Slack >
      • in the United States
      • the war correspondent
    • ~ Raphael J. de Cordova >
      • visits to Jamaica
    • ~ Robert Brown Elliott >
      • career in the USA
    • ~ Henry Laird Phillips >
      • in the United States
      • the 'social reformer'
    • ~ Joel Augustus Rogers >
      • - some assessments
    • ~ Wilmot A Barclay
    • ~ Robert Josias Morgan/Fr Raphael >
      • becoming Orthodox
      • later visits to Jamaica
      • and then?
    • ~ Samuel Benjamin Marlowe >
      • U Theo McKay
    • ~ James Samuel Watson >
      • the Watson family
    • ~ Walter Vivian Moses
    • ~ Eugene Nathan Thornley
    • ~ Frank Olivier duCille >
      • - Dusselle/Ducille family
    • Maurice Ashley
  • in Britain
    • ~ Francis Williams
    • ~ Francis Barber
    • ~ Robert Wedderburn >
      • on to Britain
    • ~ William Davidson
    • ~ Andrew Bogle
    • ~ Henry Beckford
    • ~ E. Maunde Thompson
    • Ernest & Alan Goffe
    • Harold Moody
    • ~ Louis Drysdale
    • Ronald Moody
    • Coleridge Goode
    • Oswald Russell
  • and everywhere else
    • ~ 'Billy Blue' >
      • ~ Thomas Day
    • Joseph Jackson Fuller
    • ~ Lucy Imogene Stewart
    • ~ Amos Shackleford
    • the Phang family
    • Cicely Williams
    • ~ Robert N Robinson >
      • ~ some thoughts about Robert Robinson
in  britain
francis  williams

Francis Williams
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Francis Williams, born around 1702, was apparently the youngest of the three sons of John and Dorothy Williams, free Blacks, who, in 1708, with their sons, were granted by the House of Assembly the privilege of not being subject to slave evidence in court, a status reserved for Whites.
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  About 1716, the Duke of Montague, then Governor of the Island, proposed an experiment to solve the problem, much discussed in Jamaica and elsewhere, as to whether a Black man could equal a White man if given the same education and opportunity. He chose Francis Williams because of the promise he showed, and sent him to England, where he studied at first at a grammar school, and afterwards entered the University of Cambridge, where he made considerable progress in mathematics and other branches of science. He also excelled in the study of the classics, an essential part of the education of an 18th century gentleman. As a result he wrote a considerable quantity of Latin poetry in the accepted style of the period and often addressed to Governors of Jamaica.
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