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BOSA Discovers Slave Burial Ground At Paynes Town – Vincent Samuels

Paynes Town Heritage 1

Silhouetted by towering bamboo trees, other trees and shrubs guarded in a circle by “penguin macka”- packed with thorns and thistles – is the Slave Burial Ground that representatives of Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has discovered at Paynes Town; adjoining Kepp, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, former slave estates.

Paynes Town Heritage 2

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has acquired the services of five (5) male labourers to cut, clean, clear, remove and stockpile the vegetation described herein so as to expose and make accessible myriad graves that have been discovered at this Sacred Heritage Site where lie the remains of Slave Owners and our Slave Ancestors who were loaded as cargo on Merchant Ships at Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, West Africa against their will to be...

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