History: Boxer Peter Jackson (1889). Jackson was born on the island of Saint Croix to a freed slave and later emigrated to Australia. Nicknamed ‘Peter the Great’ and ‘The Black Prince’, he won the Australian heavyweight title in 1886 and the World Colored Heavyweight Championship in 1888. [600 x 787]

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