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Tobacco Plantation
Tobacco was one of the earliest crops grown on the plantations. In time, it was overtaken by the production of cotton and then sugar.
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Cutting Sugar Cane
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Inspection and Sale
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Whip
These whips are called Sjambok or litupa. They are made from a strip of hide cut into a section of three to five feet long, one inch at the handle end, to about three-eighths of an inch at the end. The strip was rolled until it was circular, producing a flexible, tough and hard-hitting whip. The sja...
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Essequebo & Deme...
This page dated 11th December 1811, includes adverts for runaway slaves and enslaved people for sale. With kind permission of the Wisbech and Fenland Museum.
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The property of the ...
The slave trade was one of the most profitable enterprise in British and European commerce. The moral objections of the abolitionists were met with objections from those with vested interests lobbying and bribing politicians. The idea that one human being could 'own' or 'brand' another human being t...
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On the Plantations
Plantation overseer punishes an enslaved person in Brazil, 1834.
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Indenture and List o...
Indenture and List of Negroes on Montpelier Estate (New Works) 31 July 1798. Indenture 1 August 1798 between Charles Rose Ellis & Elizabeth Lady Hervey, widow & relict of Rt Hon John Augustus Hervey, eldest son of Earl of Bristol - his only daughter & heir Elizabeth Hervey aged 18. L...
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