Rapper Snoop Dogg through a recent Black History Month post to his Instagram account, has reignited an ancient argument, triggering a number of Jamaican commenters.

The flood of comments from Jamaicans came after the rapper on Wednesday (February 9) uploaded a ‘Did You Know’ post informing his followers that Thomas Jennings invented dry cleaning.

The post read: “Did you know that ‘dry cleaning’ was invented in 1821 by a black man named ‘Thomas Jennings’? Thomas Jennings owned a dry cleaning business in New York City and was the first black man in the United States to be granted a patent.”

However, it wasn’t the information that angered Jamaicans, but, one of the photos displayed above the ‘Did You Know’. The uncaptioned post had accompanying images of the first dry cleaner model along with the man who is said to have invented it.

The image posted and purported to be of the American inventor, Thomas Jennings, is the same image many claim to be of Jamaican National Hero Paul Bogle.

For decades Jamaicans and Americans have deliberated over who the individual in the photo actually is, with Americans of the view that it is Thomas Jennings and Jamaicans, Paul Bogle.

One commenter @blackstar195 said, “Den nuh Uncle Paul this one of Jamaican National Hero[es]….💓 .”

Another, @d.bejayri, said: “The man in the picture is Paul Bogle, a national hero of Jamaica who fought against slavery in Jamaica around 200 years or so.”

Another, playing on the ‘Did you know’ categorisation of the post, commented: “Did u kno that is Paul Bogle Jamaica [national] hero 😂😂😂😂😂😂 .”

Americans have claimed in the past that the image could not be of Bogle due to the individual’s ‘decent’ attire and because he was photographed at a time when photography had not yet been introduced to the island.

However, those arguments have been debunked with evidence showing that photography was introduced to Jamaica in the 1840s and Bogle would have at that time been in his teens or early 20s. Furthermore, Bogle is also known for being a deacon and, at that time, it was typical for local preachers and deacons to be clad in black suits.

It has also been claimed that he did not possess the wealth to dress in such attire. However, records show that Bogle was a small farmer, baker, as well as owner of properties and horses, which made him more than capable of affording, let alone owning, such a suit.

In addition to this, amid the Morant Bay Rebellion, the significant role Bogle played resulted in his wanted poster being placed in the Colonial Standard. Included in the wanted poster which offered a reward of £2,000 for his capture, was a description of Bogle’s features.

“A very black man, with a shiny skin, bearing heavy marks of smallpox on his face, and more especially on his nose. Teeth good, large mouth with red, thick lips; about five feet eight inches in height, broad across the shoulders, carries himself indolently and has no whiskers.”

The photo has also been placed into the custody of the Institute of Jamaica.