BOSA Discovers Slave Burial Ground At Paynes Town – Vincent Samuels

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.

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 begin their hazardous Trans-Atlantic Journey to the Slave port at Farquharson’s Wharf, Black River, Saint Elizabeth where they were auctioned Palarchie and Levy and sold to Scottish Slave Planters and Owners who bought them to work on their slave estates at Kepp, Paynes Town, Hopeton and New Savannah.

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) contends that in the same way that the Slave Burial Ground at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA has been recognized and accorded the status of Heritage Site, the Slave Burial Ground at Paynes Town, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West indies deserves nothing less.

Bosa Secretary-Treasurer Vincent Samuels looking on.

In the pursuance of getting the Slave Burial Ground at Paynes Town, Saint Elizabeth  recognized as a Heritage Site by Jamaica Heritage Trust, working closely with Dr. Abrilene Johnston-Scott, Lecturer at Bethlehem Teachers College, Malvern, Saint Elizabeth and Researcher who is currently spear-heading Carmel Heritage Project, New River, Saint Elizabeth; Beersheba Old Students association (BOSA) who initiated the project, will invite Dr. Johnston-Scott to visit the historical site so that she and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Association will be able to do a concise presentation on the Restoration of the Slave Burial Ground Project at Paynes Town.

In furtherance of its effort to get the Slave Burial Ground Project at Paynes Town recognized and given the status of Heritage Site, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has invited News Teams from Media houses in Jamaica to visit the historic site.