James Oswald

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Ann Eliza French

1787 - 1835

Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.

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Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

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.

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CITING THIS RECORD:
'James Oswald', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/22242 [accessed 17th September 2021].

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