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Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915.
The Drax's Caribbean slave plantations and estates then descended with that of Charborough House in Dorset. [1] [2] By 1680, Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantations on Barbados, then in the parish of St. John. [3] A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired "proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown". [4]
Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."
In 1680, the median size of a plantation in Barbados had increased to about 60 slaves. Over the decades, the sugar plantations began expanding as the transatlantic trade continued to prosper. In 1832, the median-size plantation in Jamaica had about 150 slaves, and nearly one of every four bondsmen lived on units that had at least 250 slaves. [4]
Henry Lascelles (1690 – 16 October 1753) was an English-born Barbados plantation owner. He was the son of Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734) and Margaret Metcalfe. He served as Collector of Customs for the British government in Barbados. He was a director of the British East India Company 1737–45, a financier, and Member of Parliament for ...
St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. [1] Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. [2] This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere. [2]
He met and married a Barbadian and settled in Barbados. It was one of the last plantations built in Barbados. [1] The plantation grew and exported yams, eddoes, and sweet potatoes. Sugar was not grown due to the reduction of the price of sugar internationally at the time the house was built. [4]
By early 1648, William Vassall moved to Barbados to take advantage of the global "sugar boom and the reality of rapid and immense fortunes to be accrued." [97] He purchased land in St. Michael and people to work it. "From that point, the family built its wealth by running slave-labor plantations in the Caribbean."