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Francis Williams ( c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican scholar and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject.
Francis Williams and The Mystery of the First Black Student at Cambridge University. Francis Williams (1692-1762) Imagine a world where your entire life’s destiny was determined by the colour of your skin; Francis Williams lived in such a world, but he fought back… through poetry.
Ran from 12 June 2023 to 31 December 2023 at V&A South Kensington. More about this display. This portrait of the Jamaican scholar and writer Francis Williams was painted around 1745 by an unknown artist. It was acquired by the V&A in 1928. Born in around 1690 in Jamaica, Williams is a complex figure.
Oct 6, 2019 · Francis Williams, the Scholar of Jamaica (unknown artist, ca. 1745) Francis Williams is reputed to be the first person of African ancestry to graduate from Cambridge University. Williams was born around 1702 to John and Dorothy Williams, a free African couple in Jamaica.
Francis Williams was a Jamaican poet and classical scholar. The freeborn son of John and Dorothy Williams, Francis was educated in England from the age of ten as an experiment to test the assumed intellectual inferiority of blacks. Sponsored by the Duke of Montagu, Williams studied Latin, Greek, and mathematics over a period of years.
Francis Williams {217 if Williams could be denied the title of poet, he could be denied the status of being fully human. Defenders of the equality of Africans and Europeans also recognized the value of Francis Williams as evidence in the growing dispute over slavery and the slave trade during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Sev
At least 30 years before Long's 1774 account of Francis Williams, the extraordinary free Jamaican Black was the subject of argument about the alleged inferiority of people of African descent. His extraordinariness was indisputable.
