Slavery in Bermuda |
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Discovery and Settlement Establishment of | 3 |
First settlers The planters Newgate prisoners | 10 |
Further importations of Negro slaves Further | 20 |
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agriculture arrived Assize Court behaviour Bermu Bermuda Gazette Bermuda Historical Bermudian Bermudian slavery British colonies Captain century Church colonists colony's conspiracy conviction Council Court crime David's Island Devonshire Parish Dockyard Emancipation Emancipation Day employed England evidence found guilty free Negroes free persons freedom freeholder George's Gibbet Island Gombeys Governor groes Hamilton Hamilton Parish History of Bermuda House of Assembly Ibid Indian Ireland Island John John Stephenson Justice labour land large numbers letter London magistrates manumission manumit Marsden masters ment Methodist mulatto Negro slave Negro woman number of slaves occasion offence owners parish passed period persons of colour Petitioners plantation pounds preaching prejudice prisoners punishment sailors sent sentenced servants ships slave population slave-owners slavery in Bermuda slaves and free society sold Stephenson theft tion trade treadwheel Tucker Turks Island vessel West Indies whipped white inhabitants white person William