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Multiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833.
Barbados was one of Britain's first slave colonies. English settlers first occupied the Caribbean island in 1627 and, under British control, it became a sugar plantation economy using enslaved ...
"Uncle Dick and Aunt Angie, Davilla, Texas, slaves of Jack's grandparents" (DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845.
Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions including the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the 1808 Act Prohibiting ...
Storey, John W., and Mary L. Kelley, eds. Twentieth Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History (2008) Taylor, Quintard. "Texas: The South Meets the West, The View Through African American History", Journal of the West (2005) 44#2 pp 44–52. Winegarten, Ruthe et al. eds. Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook (1996), primary sources; Wintz, Cary D.
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In the mid-1640s, the population of Barbados was estimated at over 18,000, many of whom were coerced or voluntary indentured servants, but the number of "Negro slaves" was around 8,000. By the mid-1650s, there was near parity with 20,000 Africans and 25,000 Europeans.
Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors owned slaves in Barbados in the 1700s and 1800s. Reports alleged the actor was facing reparation-payment claims.