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Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island 's two remaining Jacobean houses .
Kensington Estate [25] [26] Old Montpelier [27] The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833. Roehampton [28] "Rose Hall" by James Hakewill, 1820–21. [23] Rose Hall [29] Running Gut [25] [30] Spring Vale Pen [31]
Drax Hall Plantation: St. George: 957 Once owned by Colonel James Drax, it is one of the oldest remaining buildings with a Jacobean-style of architecture in Barbados. By 1913 it was owned by Dunsany. As of 2017, owned by Richard Drax MP. Francia Plantation: St. George
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.
Kerr-Jarrett was the son of the Hon. Herbert Jarrett Kerr, Custos of Trelawny Parish Jamaica, and Henrietta Theresa Vidal. [1] His grandfather had also been a Custos in Jamaica. [2] The Kerr-Jarrett family owned most of the land on which Montego Bay now stands including the 3,000 acre Barnett Estate and 18th century Great House. [5] [6]
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By the early 1650s, his plantation, Drax Hall Estate, was worked by some 200 enslaved Africans. [11] Drax was known by his contemporaries to provide his slaves and servants well, unlike James Holdip who was known to be so cruel and oppressive that his servants burnt his entire plantation to the ground. [4]: 50–51
Duckenfield, Jamaica is a village in St Thomas, in south-east Jamaica. It is named after the sugar plantation on which it is located. It is named after the sugar plantation on which it is located. It is a very poor community, [ 1 ] but it has grown substantially in recent years.