UCL

Antigua 19 (Green Castle)

Claim Details, Associated Individuals and Estates

5th Oct 1835 | 319 Enslaved | £4454 2s 6d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p.80.

T71/877: claim from Sir Henry Wm. Martin by his attorney Chas. J. Bernard (possibly Charles Jones Barnard?).

Henry Nelson Coleridge, Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825 (New York, 1826) p.268: 'At Green Castle, an estate of Sir Henry Martin's, there was a simple and ingenious plan for diminishing the labour of negroes in carrying the bundles of cane up the acclivity on which the mill is built.' This referred to a mechanised conveyor belt.

Thome and Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies (1838) p.157: the authors visited Green Castle, naming the manager as Samuel Bernard (also Barnard).

Further Information

Colony
Antigua
Claim No.
19
Estate
Green Castle
Collected by
Martin, HW ktm Geo Addison Temple Bar
Uncontested
Yes

Associated Individuals (1)

Sir Henry William Martin 2nd Bart.
Awardee

Associated Estates (1)

Green Castle [ Antigua ]