25th Apr 1836 | 205 Enslaved | £4837 7s 8d
Parliamentary Papers p. 188.
Forster Clarke was an attorney for many claims in Barbados, but also signed for his own compensation.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 26 and 58: AC attorney for 19 estates 1823-43.
T71/556 p. 48: enslaved persons were registered by Forster Clarke in 1834.
James A. Thome and Joseph H. Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies: A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the year 1837 (New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1838), pp. 259-60: the authors visited Horton, 'an estate owned by Foster Clarke Esq., an attorney for 22 estates, who is now temporarily living in England'. [Thome and Kimball, 2nd edn., 1839, p. 201.]
Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
2935
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Estate
Halton
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Collected by
Clarke, Forster
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Awardee
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