11th Apr 1836 | 162 Enslaved | £3536 5s 7d
Parliamentary Papers p. 183.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 88: Nathaniel Forte bought the Highland estate from Thomas W. Bradshaw for £15,714 in 1839.
T71/561 p. 67: Nathaniel Forte registered 161 enslaved persons on Bennetts in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
2179
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Estate
Bennetts
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Collected by
Sage, C.F. atty
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Awardee
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Barbados 2179 (Bennetts)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/1593 [accessed 25th November 2024].
