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David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), also known as David Barclay of Walthamstow or David Barclay of Walthamstow and Youngsbury, [1] was an English Quaker merchant, banker, and philanthropist. He is notable for an experiment in "gratuitous manumission ", in which he freed the slaves on his Jamaican plantation and arranged for better ...
The doctor had used a boat rather than the Barclays' helicopter to transport a patient who was having a seizure to hospital on Guernsey, which was reported in the Barclays' paper as negligent. Despite support from the patient's family and the local BMA, the doctor left Sark after the story, leaving the island without a doctor. [42]
Elizabeth Fry was born in Gurney Court, off Magdalen Street, Norwich, into a prominent Quaker family, the Gurneys. Her childhood family home was Earlham Hall, which is now part of the University of East Anglia. [10] Her father, John Gurney, was a partner in Gurney's Bank.
The Barclay family were connected with slavery, both as proponents and opponents. David and Alexander Barclay were engaged in the slave trade in 1756. [ 15 ] David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), on the other hand, was a noted abolitionist , and Verene Shepherd , the Jamaican historian of diaspora studies , singles out the case of how he ...
The Last Seen project, sponsored by Villanova University and Philadelphia's Methodist Episcopal Church, has digitized hundreds of family reunification ads since its launch in 2016. [33] By early 2017, two families had been reunited because of the project, [ 33 ] and as of 2022, around 3500 ads have been digitized. [ 34 ]
Alexander Barclay (c. 1784 – 30 October 1864) was a Scottish politician, planter, slave trader and author who served as a member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica. Born in Aberdeen , he immigrated to the British colony of Jamaica , where he became a member of the planter class .
Robert Barclay (Allardice) was a grandson of Robert Barclay, elder brother of David Barclay of Cheapside. [10] His daughter Christiana (c.1739–1796) married: (i) Joseph Gurney (1729–1761), having with him two daughters, the elder being the Quaker minister Priscilla Hannah Gurney; (ii) John Freame (died 1770), her first cousin;
"Committed to Jail" Tuskegee Republican, Tuskegee, Alabama, February 21, 1856 Family separation in American slavery was extremely common. According to one historian of the slave trade in the United States, "The magnitude of the trade, in terms of the lives it affected and families it destroyed, is without a doubt greater than any Civil War battlefield."