They left the day-to-day management of their Jamaican estates in the hands of agents, who were themselves owners of sugar plantations on the island. For a lengthier discussion, see David E. Paterson, “A Perspective on Indexing Slaves’ Names,” The American Archivist, 64 (Spring/Summer 2001), 132-142. http://www.afrigeneas.com/library/slaves_georgia.html, British mercantilist ideology largely explains the rise of the plantation system in the United States. James Cook was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire on 27 October 1728 (7 November in the Gregorian calendar), one of five children of Scottish migrant farm labourer James Cook... From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Sugar plantations in Jamaica were a source of wealh for the Fullers of Sussex and slave ownership was a harsh reality. and heirs of Charles, 222, Gale, E. G. M., York and Gale's Valley, 3147. The size and profitability of the property and the wealth of the owner determined the size of the house. Learn about Jamaica's coconut industry with a visit to Sun Valley, one of the country's working coconut plantations. 1872) also sacrificed his own freedom so that his people would not face collective slavery.[175]. In the United States before the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves", The annual Jamaica Almanacs, which were published throughout the 19th century, detail the numbers of slaves and stock held by each plantation owner. The Bight of Benin's shore soon came to be known as the "Slave Coast". This corresponds very closely with British colonisation of the island, which lasted from 1655 to Jamaican independence in 1962. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it … One, King's Valley, was in Westmoreland, to the far west (green circle). As a result, Britain began to colonize territories across the Atlantic to take advantage of their rich natural resources and encourage exports. Ships having landed slaves in Caribbean ports would take on sugar, indigo, raw cotton, and later coffee, and make for Liverpool, Nantes, Lisbon or Amsterdam. Guided tours take you to the ballroom, dining room, and Annie's bedroom and grave. The will mentions that her estate includes "plantations, negroes, stock, goods [and[ chattels" in Jamaica. sw, http://jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/gazet01.htm, http://www.kislakfoundation.org/prize/200102.html English slave trader John Atkins (cited in Craton, Walvin, and Wright 1976:28) sixteenth century, Portuguese traveler Valentim Fernandes (1506-1510:16-18) described the availability of numerous types of locally made wine in the Senegal region, including wine made from honey, grains, and palm sap. A few caveats on this list : = Banana plantation. In the 19th century, sugar dominated Martinique, Grenada, Saint Croix, Jamaica, Barbados, Leeward Islands, Saint Domingue, Cuba, and many other islands that had been run by French, British, or Spanish owners. Capt. The British Parliament abolished the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which increased planters’ costs in Jamaica at a time when the price of sugar was already dropping. John Davy-- of Wear Pen plantation Manchester, Jamaica. Abbreviations. One of the oldest surviving sugar plantations on the island is St. Nicholas Abbey, which also has the distinction of being one of three remaining Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere. Variations of this archetype included one-story buildings constructed of wood, cut stone or Spanish walling or wattle and daub; or two-story building made of brick, wood or cut stone. Thus it can be argued that the origins of the, The Middle Passage, the crossing of the Atlantic to the Americas, endured by slaves laid out in rows in the holds of ships, was only one element of the well-known triangular trade engaged in by Portuguese, Dutch, French and British. Dr Fulke Rose & Elizabeth Langley. From the 1730s, the Pennants were absentee landowners, as they, like many wealthy planters, returned to live in Britain. The Pennant plantations, therefore, are almost a microcosm of British Jamaica, and an exploration of their records provides valuable insight into this important but painful part of British history. The Pennants owned sugar plantations in Jamaica for nearly 300 years, from the late 1650s up until 1940. They bought and sold land as opportunity arose but at their height, the family owned six sugar plantations and three pens (for rearing livestock). Of over 1000 acres at Mona, less than 200 were usually planted in cane. Prospect Plantation, Sir Harold Mitchell bought it in 1936 had 2 previous owners Sir Harold Paton Mitchell, 1st Baronet, Blagrove Plantation SW http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/John_Blagrove_junior_%281753-1824%29%2C_West_Indian_plantation_owner, Size (Acres) and Owner in 1840 jamaica alminac, 60 William Fitzgerald, 10 William Hemsley, or 72 Abraham Lazarus, http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/clarendon.html, Good Hope EstateFormerly a sugar plantation, the main crops are now papaya, ackee, citrus and anthuriums sw, British Regiments in Canada (and Jamaica), Jamaica Plantership (Paperback) by Benjamin M'mahon Publisher: Bibliolife (Apr 2009), http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/09/bachmann-stands-by-marriage-pledge- that-links-slavery-to-black-family-values/, http://www.satan4u.8m.com/history/slavery.html, discussion on slavery' Sea-Venture' to VA 1610, http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?jamaica::powell::12796.html, http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FC6A7151-B685-4F7B-87D7-4D61280CA2D8/0/SlaveownersResearchGuide.pdf, http://www.archive.org/stream/jamaicaplanters00mmagoog/jamaicaplanters00mmagoog_djvu.txt, The first African slaves arrived in Hispaniola in 1501;[70] by 1517, the natives had been "virtually annihilated" by the settlers. Ban. Since slaves were documented as property in most surviving records, a slave's legal identity was the combination of his/her first name and the full name of his/her owner. He commissioned George Robertson to paint these plantations and many other landscapes in Jamaica. A Note on Documenting Slaves’ Names. Despite living over 4,600 miles away, the Pennants controlled their Jamaican holdings diligently, writing many letters to their agents concerning the management of their estates. Most of the Pennant plantations were in the parish of Clarendon, in the centre of the island (within the red and blue circles on the map). Bosman (1705:404) reported that the Africans at Whydah were great lovers of strong liquors, Rum was an essential part of the cargo of the slave ship, particularly the colonial American slave ship. David Innes was shown as deceased on 28th June 1817 on the slave returns. Located on the 3,000-acre Barnett Estate near Montego Bay, the site is also home to the Belfield 1797 restaurant, operated by Elegant Resorts International. There were many more slaves and far larger sugar plantations in Jamaica than there were in Barbados, which was the next largest producer of sugar in the Caribbean. 295–7. Approximately 15 acres in size and running SEA TO SEA. The Scots relationship with the Caribbean became more significant, … Sugar was exported to Britain in large barrels called hogsheads (holding 14 cwt/710 kg of sugar) and smaller tierces (9 cwt/460 kg). This was once the home of the notorious Annie Palmer, better known as the White Witch. Plantation Owners 4. This was once the home of the Barrett family (as in Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Sharpe led a slave rebellion in 1831 that helped bring about the abolition of slavery. Plantation Era 5. In 1762 he inherited, from his cousin John Frederick Pinney, MP for Bridport in Dorset, land in the West Country. 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