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

	c.1813 - A Boulton & Watt, Bell Crank steam engine exported and erected upon the Ashley Hall Estate.
	1763 - Map of the island of Jamaica with property owners indicated - The 'Ashleys' family name is indicated within the rectangles.
	1804 - Map of Jamaica by James Robertson [c.1756-1829] with location of Ashley Hall in Vere Parish.

1884 - The Weekly Mail newspaper [067] [361] of 26th July 1884 published the following comment : -

With reference to the commemoration, on the 1st prox., of the 50th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Colonies, Sergeant Dwyer, now curator of the Cardiff Town-hall Reading-room, reminds me that the slaves in Jamaica did not receive their freedom until 1838. His regiment, the 8th King's, was stationed in that island at the time, and he well remembers the occasion of that emancipation. For at least a month after their release from bondage, the emancipated slaves could be got to do no work at all.