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Mary Johnston Rose – How to become legally white
Sample of eighteenth century Indian chintz. The Spanish Town census, featured here recently, listed three people who were described as “free Mulattoes or Descendants from them admitted to the...
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Robert Kelly – Master at Arms
The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740, by his Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent and Oxford By Peter Monamy (Collections of the National Maritime Museum) [Public domain], via...
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Of an unjust imprisonment and a shocking legacy
By Thomas Hudon, engraved by Johan Faber (The National Maritime Museum), via Wikimedia Commons Many who are new to tales of Jamaican slavery are deeply shocked when they discover that freed slaves and...
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A White Beaver Hat
A Beaver Hat perhaps similar to the one sent to Mary Rose, although apparently dating to about 1830. Source: http://extantgowns.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/beaver-hat.html Rose Fuller left Jamaica in 1755,...
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The Genealogical Jigsaw Puzzle
It is always very satisfying when another piece of the genealogical jigsaw puzzle slots into place, and this is what happened following the item I wrote last time about Robert Fotherby, who gave his...
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