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Clarksonville

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Dec 09, 2021
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Photos show “freed” Jamaicans at the turn of the Century…

Parish: St. Ann

Clarksonville, located in St. Ann, is one of the first free villages established after emancipation. Named in 1835 by Reverend John Clark, a Baptist minister stationed in Brown’s Town, it honors Thomas Clarkson, an English abolitionist who fought tirelessly to end slavery.

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