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This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 [2] 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate. [3] Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over ...
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 1854, 1858, 1862, 1864, 1872, and 1886 that allowed creditors and other interested parties to apply for the sale of estates (plantations) in the British colonies in the West Indies despite legal encumbrances that would normally prevent such a sale.
The Friendship and Greenwich was a plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, north of Savanna-la-Mar on the Cabaritta River. [1] It was adjacent to the Mesopotamia estate. In 1875, it came up for sale at auction in London by order of the Court of the Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies when it was in the ownership ...
A Correct Map of Jamaica: 83: 1762: A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica: John Gibson: 89: 1765: A New Map of the Island of Jamaica: Thomas Kitchin: 101: 1775: Jamaica: Thomas Jeffreys: 104: 1779: La Giammaica: Antonio Zatta: 105: 1780: Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaique: Rigobert Bonne: 131: 1794: A Map of the Island of Jamaica: Bryan Edwards ...
Frontier Estate was a sugar plantation located in Port Maria, Jamaica. [1] The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832. [ 2 ] Following emancipation in 1834, the formerly enslaved Africans were obliged to remain on the plantations as "apprentices", whereby they worked as before for three-quarters of their ...
The location of Jamaica An enlargeable map of Jamaica. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jamaica: Jamaica – sovereign island nation located on the Island of Jamaica of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. [1] It is 234 kilometres (145 mi) long and 80 kilometres (50 mi) at its widest.