George William Gordon, the son of a planter and one of his female
St. Andrew. Gordon was self-educated and became a successful
landowner and businessman.
He was one of the original founding members of the Jamaica
Mutual Life Society, an insurance company. Gordon was an
blacks. As a member of the Jamaica Assembly, his defense of the
social and moral rights of the oppressed made him an enemy of
In 1865 when the so-called Morant Bay Rebellion broke out, Gordon was arrested for
conspiracy, probably because he was a member of the same Baptist Sect that Paul Bogle
belonged to. Gordon had actually ordained Bogle as a Deacon in the Baptist Church.
arrest.
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