The Right Excellent Samuel Jackman Prescod is one of Barbados' ten National Heroes and the first Black member of Parliament being elected in 1843. He was born in 1806 to a free Black woman by the name of Lidia Smith a White man of status named William Prescod. Because of his ethnic background, he was barred from […]

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