Documents of Interest

Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

Palm Estate 1817 p1

Details in the life of Quamin, head boilerman on Palm Estate.

'Driver, cold morning'

One of over 300 drawings of landscapes and enslaved people in Jamaica by William Berryman, 1808-1815.

Hope estate list of enslaved people, 1813 p12

'Children at the Breast' on Hope estate, 1813