Paul Bogle

{{Short description|Jamaican Baptist deacon, national hero, and activist (1822–1865)}}

{{Short description|Jamaican Baptist deacon, national hero, and activist (≈ June 1822–1865)}}

{{for|the Dean of Clonmacnoise in the Church of Ireland|Paul Bogle (priest)}}

{{for|the Dean of Clonmacnoise in the Church of Ireland|Paul Bogle (priest)}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1865|10|24|1822|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1865|10|24|1822|df=y}}

| death_cause = Hanged

| death_cause = Hanged

| occupation = Baptist deacon, activist

| occupation = Baptist deacon, activist, spokesperson

| known_for = Leader of the protesters in the [[Morant Bay rebellion]]

| known_for = Leader of the protesters in the [[Morant Bay rebellion]]

| website = https://paulboglefoundation.org/

| website = https://paulboglefoundation.org/

}}

}}

'''Paul Bogle''' (1822 – 24 October 1865)Dugdale-Pointon, T., [http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_bogle_paul.html "Paul Bogle, 1822–1865"]. Military History Encyclopedia good on the Web, 22 September 2008. was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist. He is a [[Order of National Hero (Jamaica)|National Hero of Jamaica]]. He was a leader of the 1865 [[Morant Bay]] protesters, who marched for justice and fair treatment for all the people in Jamaica. After leading the [[Morant Bay rebellion]], Bogle was captured, tried and convicted by the [[Colony of Jamaica|colonial government]] (who had declared [[martial law]]), and hanged on 24 October 1865 in the Morant Bay court house.Gad Heuman, ''The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994).

'''Paul Bogle''' (≈ June 1822 – 24 October 1865)Dugdale-Pointon, T., [http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_bogle_paul.html "Paul Bogle, 1822–1865"]. Military History Encyclopedia good on the Web, 22 September 2008. was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist. He is a [[Order of National Hero (Jamaica)|National Hero of Jamaica]]. He was a leader of the 1865 [[Morant Bay]] protesters, who marched for justice and fair treatment for all the people in Jamaica. After leading the [[Morant Bay rebellion]], Bogle was captured, tried and convicted by the [[Colony of Jamaica|colonial government]] (who had declared [[martial law]]), and hanged on 24 October 1865 in the Morant Bay court house.Gad Heuman, ''The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994).

Bogle had become a friend of a wealthy landowner and fellow Baptist [[George William Gordon]], a bi-racial man who served in the Assembly as one of two [[Nanny state|representatives]] from [[Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica|St. Thomas-in-the-East parish]]. Gordon was instrumental in Bogle being appointed deacon of Stony Gut Baptist Church in 1864. Conditions were hard for black peasants, due to social discrimination, flooding and crop failure, and epidemics. The required payment of [[poll taxes]] prevented most of them from voting. In August 1865, Gordon criticised the [[List of governors of Jamaica|governor of Jamaica]], [[Edward John Eyre]], for sanctioning "everything done by the higher class to the oppression of the negroes".Kevin O'Brien Chang, [http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120725/lead/lead91.html "Paul Bogle – Defender of the People"], ''The Gleaner'', 25 July 2012.

Bogle had become a friend of a wealthy landowner and fellow Baptist [[George William Gordon]], a bi-racial man who served in the Assembly as one of two [[Nanny state|representatives]] from [[Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica|St. Thomas-in-the-East parish]]. Gordon was instrumental in Bogle being appointed deacon of Stony Gut Baptist Church in 1864. Conditions were hard for black peasants, due to social discrimination, flooding and crop failure, and epidemics. The required payment of [[poll taxes]] prevented most of them from voting. In August 1865, Gordon criticised the [[List of governors of Jamaica|governor of Jamaica]], [[Edward John Eyre]], for sanctioning "everything done by the higher class to the oppression of the negroes".Kevin O'Brien Chang, [http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120725/lead/lead91.html "Paul Bogle – Defender of the People"], ''The Gleaner'', 25 July 2012.