Frontier Estate
Frontier Estate was a sugar plantation located in Port Maria (Saint Mary Parish), Jamaica.[1]
History
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In May 1760, Tacky, a slave overseer on the Frontier plantation led a enslaved Africans revolt.[2]
The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832.[3]
Following emancipation in 1834, the formerly enslaved Africans were obliged to remain on the plantations as "apprentices", whereby they worked as before for three-quarters of their time, but were free to sell their labour outside these hours.[4] Originally planned to last eight years, public pressure brought these "apprenticeships" to an end in 1838. At this time there were 268 "apprentices" at Frontier.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Frontier Estate". www.ucl.ac.uk. University College London. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ↑ "Jamaican Culture". Jamaicans.com. 2014-06-20. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
- 1 2 Higman, B. W. (2001). Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Mona: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401139.
- ↑ "The end of slavery | Apprenticeship: slavery by another name? | Freedom from slavery | Against Slavery | Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery | PortCities Bristol". www.discoveringbristol.org.uk. Bristol City Council. Retrieved 3 June 2019.