The ''Falmouth Post'' was newspaper established in 1834 Falmouth,

Trelawny Parish Trelawny (Jamaican Patois: ''Trilaani'' or ''Chrilaani'') is a parish in the county of Cornwall in northwest Jamaica. Its capital is Falmouth. It is bordered by the parishes of Saint Ann in the east, Saint James in the west, and Saint Elizab ...

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to promote the full freedom for the enslaved Africans who had been obliged to work unpaid as "

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" by the

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. It was bought by

John Castello John Anderson Castello (1802, British Guiana-1877, Jamaica) was a Guyanese child actor and journalist who established his reputation in Jamaica, whither he moved as a teenager. Following Master Betty, known as "the Young Roscius", Castello was ca ...

in 1836.

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