[Jamaican Plantation Auction]:

$650 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

JAMAICA. PARTICULARS OF COFFEE ESTATES AND PLANTATIONS IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, ABOUT 2,400 ACRES, A CAPITAL MANSION, FARMING BUILDINGS, DWELLING HOUSES, &c.; WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION BY ... The particulars of an auction where four adjacent Jamaican plantations are to be sold as one lot. The estates to be offered are Marlborough Mount and Morehead, Cedar Grove, Hanover, and Wilton Pen, the first three in the parish of Manchester, the last in St. Elizabeth. Though the abolition of the slave trade in 1838 hurt sugar plantations the most, it was extremely detrimental to the economics of the plantation as a whole, sparking a depression and civil unrest. The purchaser of these plantations would have difficult times ahead, with the British military moving in to suppress local self-government from 1865 to 1884.

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