9th May 1836 | 94 Enslaved | £2066 4s 6d
Parliamentary Papers p. 193.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 78-9: the Golden Ridge estate sold for over £200 per acre (119 acres) in 1839. Hughes Queree shows the sale as 1838.
T71/557 p. 52: enslaved persons were registered by William T. Cox in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
3888
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Estate
Golden Ridge
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Collected by
Hardy, John Peter, atty
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Awardee
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1805 - ????
Enslaved man brought to England as a domestic servant; his former owner was indicted for the mistreatment of Thompson in 1824.
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 3888 (Golden Ridge)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/6189 [accessed 26th November 2024].
