16th May 1836 | 231 Enslaved | £5041 5s 4d
Parliamentary Papers p. 199.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 116: Hampden Clement sold Clement Castle estate in 1837 to Thomas Ellis, a man of colour, for £26,000.
T71/564 p. 49: enslaved persons were registered by Hampden Clement in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
4874
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Estate
Clement Castle
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Collected by
Daniel, J atty
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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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'Barbados 4874 (Clement Castle)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/2623 [accessed 25th April 2024].
