Sarah Blizard Phillips

1. Sarah is listed in the Antigua Slave Returns of 1824, 1828, and 1832. In all three returns Sarah is listed under the entry of Thomas Blizard Moore who was her trustee.

2. The daughter of Joseph Phillips and Mary Kezia Moore. It also appears that she was the niece of her trustee Thomas Blizard Moore.

3. An anonymous piece, refuting allegations made against Joseph Phillips that he’d purchased an enslaved person for his daughter Sarah, appeared in the 9 May 1833 edition of the Antigua Free Press. The writer states that it was the girl’s aunts, ‘Miss Sarah Moore and her sisters’, who made the purchase. He explained that Phillips was unhappy about the transaction and added that the enslaved woman in question could not be manumitted until Sarah became an adult.

1. Antigua Slave Register 1824 (T71/248/477), Antigua Slave Register 1828 (T71/249/52), and Antigua Slave Register 1832 (T71/250/469), Ancestry.com. Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication T71); Records created and inherited by HM Treasury; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.

2. Pedigree of Joseph Phillips, Antigua National Archives

3. Antigua Free Press, Thursday May 9, 1833, folio 275, cols 2, 3, 4 and folio 276 RHS, cols 1 and 2

We are grateful to Ann Phillips for her assistance with compiling this entry.