Cust is an example of one whose outlook is deeply enmeshed in the British imperial world of the C19th, because of his slave-owning, his military career, and because of his preoccupations, in the later 1830s and 1840s, with both the state and future of the West Indies including both forms of labour - indenture and immigration - and forms of colonial government. He was a contributor to debates about the questions of the appropriate forms of colonial government in the empire as a whole which followed the Durham Report (1839) and figure so largely in the mid-century. See for example his pamphlets Reflections on West India Affairs and The Colonies and Colonial Government.
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.
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.
