Virgin Islands 266

21^st Nov 1836 | 226 Enslaved | £3300 14s 2d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 315.

Colony

Virgin Islands

Claim No.

266

Contested

Yes

1789 - 14^th Mar 1860

Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

CITING THIS RECORD:
'Virgin Islands 266', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/30086 [accessed 19th June 2021].