Francis Mooky Duke Williams Info

: Upon returning to Jamaica, he established the island's first free school in Spanish Town to educate impoverished Black children.

Francis Williams was born to John and Dorothy Williams, a free Black couple in Jamaica. John Williams had been emancipated in 1699 through the will of his former enslaver. This status as free, property-owning Black people set the Williams family apart from the predominantly white colonists and enslaved Africans who made up most of Jamaica's population at the time. francis mooky duke williams