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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.
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.
Green Park Great House was purchased by Ray Fremmer, an American WW2 veteran, an eccentric amateur historian [27] and archaeologist originally from Boston, who moved to Jamaica before 1960. [28] Fremmer was the author of the 1963 book, Jamaica's heroes and patriots, [29] and led the 1965 excavation of the heroes of the Morant Bay rebellion. [30]
William Atherton (31 May 1742 – 30 June 1803), was a merchant and wealthy landowner from Lancashire, England, who operated and co-owned sugar plantations in the former Colony of Jamaica. He was a slave owner , as well as an importer of slaves from Africa .
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Usually grand, in other countries they might be called manor or country houses. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great Houses in Jamaica . Pages in category "Great Houses in Jamaica"
English colonist William Vassall (1592–1656) is remembered both for promoting religious freedom in New England and commencing his family's ownership of slave plantations in the Caribbean. A patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Company, Vassall was among the merchants who petitioned Puritan courts for greater civil liberties and religious tolerance.
Biographer Ann Thwaite writes that while the rose garden at Mayham Hall may have been "crucial" to the novel's development, Maytham Hall and Misselthwaite Manor are physically very different. [24] Thwaite suggests that, for the setting of The Secret Garden , Burnett may have been inspired by the moors of Emily Brontë 's 1847 novel Wuthering ...