People of Interest

Ann Katherine Storer (née Hill)

1785 - 1854

Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.

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Documents of Interest

'Driver, cold morning'

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

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