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Bacchus [no surname given]

Profile & Legacies Summary

1772 - 1798

Biography

Enslaved person living and working on Unity Valley Pen (Portland), Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay (q.v.) and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.

Bacchus was 23 at the time of his manumission and listed as 'native African'. Upon arriving in Philadelphia he was apprenticed for 2 years, 'found in clothes' [domestic service] and given '$40 freedom dues'. In 1801 Barclay wrote an account of the emancipation and the fortunes of the former enslaved now living in Philadelphia; Bacchus had died in 1798, cause not given.


Sources

David Barclay, An account of the emancipation of the slaves of Unity Valley Pen Jamaica (London, 1801). Available through Googlebooks: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FuRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1795 [EY] → Enslaved
Unity Valley Pen [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

Pen owner David Barclay order manumission 1795.

Relationships (1)

Bacchus [no surname given]
Enslaved-manumitted → Previous owner
David Barclay
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David Barclay ordered manumission...