The Gale Morant Jamaican plantation papers cover the period from the late 18th century to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 and beyond, when plantation owners were allowed to keep their slaves as ‘Apprentices’.
The papers contain information on the slaves themselves, with slave lists and accounts, and give some understanding of how they were treated and viewed by their owners and overseers, and their value, health and well-being. Lists of slave give their age and physical condition and contain descriptions such as 'able', 'healthy', 'very weakly' and 'sickly'.
Item Provenance
Samuel Gedge Rare Books.