Heros Amoung Us: Jamaica National Heroes' Day 2025

This podcast provides an extensive historical timeline and overview of Jamaica’s seven National Heroes, detailing their individual contributions to the nation’s journey from colonisation to independence. The text traces a continuous thread of resistance, beginning with Nanny of the Maroons in the 18th century, through the anti-slavery movement led by Samuel Sharpe, and the post-emancipation fight for justice by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon. Later periods highlight the global Black consciousness movement championed by Marcus Garvey, and the political foundation laid by cousins Norman Manley and Sir Alexander Bustamante, who ushered in independence in 1962. Ultimately, the document establishes that Jamaica’s National Heroes’ Day, a public holiday, honours these figures whose collective struggles forged the country’s identity and liberty.