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Our estates search form allows you to find the 5898 Jamaican estates in the LBS database which have not been linked to the map, as well as the 850 which have. See our Notes on Sources for more information on the sources used.
30 Νοε 2012 · According to the bankrupt Jamaican planter, William Beckford, planters, who received credit for the purchase of plantation supplies, enjoyed low interest payments if they mortgaged their properties to the metropolitan merchants who handled the selling of their sugar crop.
1 Νοε 1990 · He describes Jamaica’s surveyors and their spatial perception and theories, and examines their task of intellectually organizing the island’s space. Higman supports his descriptions with considerable documentation, generously illustrating them with plans, maps, and photographs.
All 819 of the sugar estates on James Robertson’s map of 1804 have been plotted on our Jamaican maps page and linked to estates in the database. Work is underway to link pens and smaller plantations on the 1804 map.
Handbook and Almanac of Jamaica Planters. In 1832, before the abolition of slavery there were six hundred and fifty-three sugar estates in cultivation- over 500 coffee plantations. The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of £20 million to compensate the owners of all West Indian slaves for the loss of their 'human property!!!
Old maps of Jamaica on OldMapsOnline. [Banking Service in Jamaica] 1900. London : Geographia Ltd. Jamaica. 1851. Tallis, J. & F.
West Indies. Cram's large, highly detailed map of the West Indies from his Superior Atlas of the World features shipping routes and undersea cables. On the verso are two separate maps: "Jamaica, Haiti
