English: w:Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806 – 26 September 1871) became the first non-white member of Barbados's Parliament in 1843. He also helped found the Liberal Party, whose following included small landowners, businessmen, and mulatto and black clerks.
Prescod was born as the son of a slave mother, Lidia Smith, and a white father, Wiliam Prescod. here seen at w:British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society convention in 1840. Note this is an extract from a much larger painting.
<ref name=npg>[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit The Anti-Slavery Society Convention], 1840, [[Benjamin Robert Haydon]], accessed [[19 July]] [[2008]]</ref>
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== Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|1=w:Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806 – 26 September 1871) became the first non-white member of Barbados's Parliament in 1843. He also helped found the Liberal Party, whose following included small landowners