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About Francis Williams
Francis Williams was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer 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. After returning to Jamaica, he established a free school for free people of colour in Jamaica. His portrait is considered to be the earliest-known example in the canon of western art to have been commissioned by a known Black person to record their own intellectual achievements.
Everything about Francis Williams →- Occupation
- mathematician, poet, astronomer, polymath
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1702
- Died
- 1770