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A relatively modern plantation built in 1913 by Rene Mourraille and currently houses a private school. It is a designated property of the Barbados National Trust. Babbs St. Lucy 81 By 1913 the owner was Pedder Barrows St. Lucy 85 By 1913 the owner was Bovell Bourbon St. Lucy 191 By 1913 the owner was Skeete Bright Hall St. Lucy 177
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."
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
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."
In 1685 the plantation owner Christopher Codrington, a sugar planter from Barbados leases the island of Barbuda from the British crown. [ 4 ] Bahamas – In 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the Earl of Craven a Lord Proprietor of the Carolinas, who rented the islands from the king with rights of trading, tax, appointing governors ...
The "Paleologus and Beal" plantation on a 1685 map of Barbados, marked with a pineapple (to the left, below "Topp"). Theodorious, or Theodore, Paleologus was born c. 1660 [2] as the only child of Ferdinand Paleologus and Rebecca Pomfrett, the daughter of a Barbadian landowner. [3]
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]
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