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Great Houses or Plantation Houses, home of planters, or attorneys who acted for the absentee owner, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. The size of the house was a good judge of the success
Slavery by another name: Apprenticed women in Jamaican workhouses in the period 1834–81LIFEWORKHOUSESHitherto, the historiography of Jamaican slavery has ignored the period of Apprenticeship which lasted from 1834 until 1838 when Jamaica changed from a forced-labour to a free-labour economy. The ...
The history, layout and floor plans of Devon House in Jamaica, built by George Stiebel on the foundation of the old rectory of the St Andrew Parish Church on lands purchased from the Church of England. The House is the last surviving of three elaborate p
Rose Hall in Jamaica has these elements, too, though it was built 60 years earlier. The cashed-up sugar barons of that era, of course, were treated with similar disdain as the industrial parvenus who followed — and so were prone to similar cachet-boosting gestures. ...
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It does this by examining the experiences of apprenticed women in the island's workhouses. The disciplinary regime that the women faced was similar to that exercised on the estates prior to 1834 and was enforced by a similar set of officers. It is shown that the disciplinary regime served ...
John Palmer's grand nephew, John Rose Palmer who moved to Jamaica in the same year to take charge of Rose Hall. John Rose Palmer married Annie Patterson who was 18, soon after returning to Jamaica and taking charge of the estates. Annie Mary Paterson was the daughter of John Paterson Esq...