Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Slavery - echoes of the past . . . .

I wondered what the effect of the 1833 Act for the Abolition of Slavery would have had on production from the Ashley Hall Estate since labour would have presumably become problematic following the emancipation of its slaves. I read a document entitled 'Irrigation in the West Indies, being a simple plan by which they may be perpetuated as valuable and productive sugar colonies.' [1361] [499] written by the Crown Surveyor of Jamaica and published in 1846 which summarise exports : -