Juba [no surname given]

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.

Juba was 14 at the time of her manumission and born in Jamaica. Her mother was Clarissa (q.v.), another of the enslaved manumitted by Barclay. Upon arriving in Philadelphia she was placed indentured for 4 years with instructions that she be 'taught to read and write, found in clothes and have freedom dues viz. two complete suits of apparel, one of which to be new'. In 1801 Barclay wrote an account of the emancipation and the fortunes of the former enslaved now living in Philadelphia; her term of service having expired Juba was living with her mother in Philadelphia.

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