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Yawo alias David Barclay

Profile & Legacies Summary

1781 - ????

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.

Yawo was 14 at the time of his manumission and listed as 'native of Jamaica'. Upon arriving in Philadelphia he was apprenticed as a Carpenter for 7 years, taught to read and write and given 'freedom dues'. He was listed as having the 'alias David Barclay'. In 1801 Barclay wrote an account of the emancipation and the fortunes of the former enslaved now living in Philadelphia; Yawo was still apprenticed as a carpenter.


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)

Yawo alias David Barclay
Enslaved-manumitted → Previous owner
David Barclay
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