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Earl of Lonsdale first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1810 with Craik, master, Stitt & Co., owners, and trade Whithaven–West Indies. [2] On 7 February 1811 Earl of Londsdale, Creak, master, was at Gravesend, having returned from Jamaica. On 18 Fgebruary she was at Falmouth, on her way back to Jamaica.
The Baptist War, as it was known, became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, [83] lasting 10 days and mobilised as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 slave population. [ 84 ] The rebellion was suppressed by British forces, under the control of Sir Willoughby Cotton , [ 85 ] but the death toll on both sides was high.
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.
Map of Jamaica: Benedetto Bordone: A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. 2: 1562: Isola Cuba Nova: Girolamo Ruscelli: Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. [2] 4: 1572: Jamaica: Tomaso Porcacchi
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.
1810 in the Caribbean (2 P) 1811 in the Caribbean ... 1810s in Jamaica (1 C) P. 1810s in Puerto Rico (5 C, ... West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States
The Caribbean campaign of 1803–1810 was a series of military contests mainly in the West Indies spanning the Napoleonic Wars involving European powers Napoleonic France, the Batavian Republic, Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Eventually British naval forces dominated the seas and by 1810 ...
Jamaica's two founding fathers projected quite different popular images. Bustamante, lacking even a high school diploma, was an autocratic, charismatic, and highly adept politician; Manley was an athletic, Oxford-trained lawyer, Rhodes scholar, humanist, and liberal intellectual. Although considerably more reserved than Bustamante, Manley was ...