1837 - J. C. Chappell [Publisher]
The full title is:
A statement of facts, submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, Preparatory to an appeal about to be made by the author, to the Commons of Great Britain, seeking redress for grievances of a most serious tendency, committed upon him, under the administration of His Excellency the Marquis of Sligo, the late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica with an exposure of the present system of Jamaica Apprenticeship
See also Henry Sterne, A key to Sterne's exposure of Jamaica justice, or, a brief account of the author's individual wrongs (London, J. C. Chappell, 1837).
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Place
London
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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.
