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Month: <span>October 1783</span>

Month: October 1783

Disease/health, Enslaved people, Food/provisions, Hurricanes, Lyssons (plantation), Pens/livestock, Plantation management, Slave trading, Sugar

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 10 October 1783

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By the end of 1783, Taylor expressed his satisfaction with work at Golden Grove, under the supervision of the overseer, Madden. Taylor described his plans for improving the cultivation and productivity of Golden Grove, which included the purchase of more enslaved workers and the avoidance of ‘jumping crops’, which were …

Abolitionism, Christianity, Defence of slavery, Enslaved people, France, Lyssons (plantation)

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 10 October 1783

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In 1784, James Ramsay published his famous and influential Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies. Ramsay had lived as an Anglican clergyman in the British-Caribbean colony of St Kitts (hence Taylor’s comment here about the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean) and …