LBS YouTube channel

LBS now has a YouTube channel. Currently there are videos on

British slave owners, tracking the money and the stories of the Enslaved (29 May 2021)
Jamaica Reader book launch (25 June 2021)
Haiti Now and Then (22 October 2021)
Jennifer L. Morgan: Elsa Goveia public lecture: The Measure of their Sadness: Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic (18 May 2022)

Further Information

People of Interest

Dorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)

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Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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.

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