Roehampton Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1825

Shows the slave village, the mansion house, plantation hospital (on left in background), and sugar works, including boiling and curing house and mill. This illustration was done by James Hakewill, but was not published in his A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (London, 1825). Compare with image NW0087. See also, other Hakewill images on this website.

Image Title

Roehampton Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1825

RegID

SI-OB-490

Date

1825

Title

Roehampton Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1825

Source

Great Britain, Parliament, House of Lords Select Committee to Inquire into the Laws and Usages of the Several West India Colonies in Relation to the Slave Population. Evidence upon oath touching the condition and treatment of the Negro population of the British West India colonies. Part 1: Island of Jamaica. Taken before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, Session 1832 (London, 1833), following page 24.

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Jamaica

Reproduced In

Great Britain, Parliament, House of Lords Select Committee to Inquire into the Laws and Usages of the Several West India Colonies in Relation to the Slave Population. Evidence upon oath touching the condition and treatment of the Negro population of the British West India colonies. Part 1: Island of Jamaica. Taken before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, Session 1832 (London, 1833), following page 24.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Last Updated

16-Jun-16

Identifier

NW0095