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RE: Slaves in Jamaica - Colin Jackson's story
Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:56:47 -0500
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Marilyn Horner...
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I'm interested in this Adam wilson. How do I obtain informatin about the
slave register?
myths...
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I look at Slave Registers at the National Archives in Kew, London.
The catalogue is online at
myths...
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Try searching at
for
slave AND register
Within the results, go for catalogue reference
T
and then (Subsubseries within T 71 )
SLAVE REGISTERS
Then select button "Browse from here"
and go through the pages until you find the parish / date of interest.
All you get is the reference of the enormous book that can be seen at
Kew.
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They consist of the name of the person presenting the information, the
plantation and owner (if different from the informant), and a list of
the slaves - gender, name(s), age, black/white mix, born locally or in
Africa, and a comment column, which I have only seen used for name of
mother (if still on the plantation) and (once or twice) the word
"runaway". I think it unlikely there is more information there about
Adam Wilson than has already been posted.
from the Jamaican Archives.
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marilyn
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