Titel
Scenes from the history of the Africans in Guyana.
Schrijver
Cruickshank, James Graham; Granger, David (ed.)
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9768178000
Uitgever
Free Press, Georgetown, Guyana
Prijs
€ 175,00(Excl. verzendkosten)
Bijzonderheden
1999, 80 pp., paperback, incl. b/w illustrations and pictures, tables and maps, very good condition.
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Cruickshank, James Graham 1877-1944
Reverend James Graham Cruickshank (1877-1944) Purchase of Plantation Northbrook (Victoria), November 1839.
When the Black people were emancipated on the first of August 1838, there were already three tiny villages or hamlets in the colony.
The oldest of those – associated probably with the military fort – was situated at the Mahaica ferry. Twelve years before – in November 1826 – Dr. Michael McTurk, Deputy Fiscal of the Eastern District, reported that sugar, molasses and coffee was exposed for sale at Mahaica ferry, contrary to law. He added that on Sunday nearly two hundred Negroes collected there, - far more than were needed to supply the honest requirements of “a village so comparatively small.”
Another hamlet – consisting for the most part of wattle-and-daub houses, with a little shop – was to be found at the Mahaicony ferry.
Lastly, there was a small village on the Aroabisce coast, Essequebo, which Governor Sir James Carmichael Smyth a short time before his death had named after King William 1V, “William’s Town.”
But were all, - if we except the plantations these themselves, each of which with its great-house and sick-house and Negro quarters: its wide grassy spaces where the pickaninies played, and its lonely burial ground: was a village (big or little) by itself.
The beginnings of the villages – practically without exception – are to be found in the land-purchases after emancipation by the “Freedmen of the first of August.”
These purchases – for the purpose of this paper – fall under two heads: -
plantation bought as a whole in undivided shares by a number of people;
Front lots of land on plantation bought separately by individuals.
We will dwell first on (a) – the earliest and more ambitious form of land-purchase.
The first recorded transaction of the kind was the purchase from the executors of Hugh Rogers, deceased, of Plantation Northbrook, consisting of about five hundred acres (“situate in Courabana,” between Plantation Craig Milne and Plantation Belfield, on the East Coast, Demerara) by eighty-three freed Negroes in November, 1839. Fourteen years before, Plantation Northbrook had been a cotton estate with two hundred and eighty-five slaves, the property of Mr. James Stewart. Then cotton failed and a few cattle grazed on the front lands. When the estate was bought by the black people it had nothing of any value on it except two or three tumbledown houses. The purchase price was thirty thousand guilders. Two –thirds of this was paid down in hard cash, - “Spanish” dollars , guilders, two-bits, bits and half-bits “thrown -up” by the purchasers, the coins, some of them, black with the mud in which they had been buried. Transport was passed on January 4, 1841. In a petition to Governor Light the purchasers asked that they be allowed to “name our plantation after our Good and Gracious Young Queen, Victoria,” – a request granted by Her Majesty.
Reverend James Graham Cruickshank (1877-1944) Purchase of Plantation Northbrook (Victoria), November 1839.
When the Black people were emancipated on the first of August 1838, there were already three tiny villages or hamlets in the colony.
The oldest of those – associated probably with the military fort – was situated at the Mahaica ferry. Twelve years before – in November 1826 – Dr. Michael McTurk, Deputy Fiscal of the Eastern District, reported that sugar, molasses and coffee was exposed for sale at Mahaica ferry, contrary to law. He added that on Sunday nearly two hundred Negroes collected there, - far more than were needed to supply the honest requirements of “a village so comparatively small.”
Another hamlet – consisting for the most part of wattle-and-daub houses, with a little shop – was to be found at the Mahaicony ferry.
Lastly, there was a small village on the Aroabisce coast, Essequebo, which Governor Sir James Carmichael Smyth a short time before his death had named after King William 1V, “William’s Town.”
But were all, - if we except the plantations these themselves, each of which with its great-house and sick-house and Negro quarters: its wide grassy spaces where the pickaninies played, and its lonely burial ground: was a village (big or little) by itself.
The beginnings of the villages – practically without exception – are to be found in the land-purchases after emancipation by the “Freedmen of the first of August.”
These purchases – for the purpose of this paper – fall under two heads: -
plantation bought as a whole in undivided shares by a number of people;
Front lots of land on plantation bought separately by individuals.
We will dwell first on (a) – the earliest and more ambitious form of land-purchase.
The first recorded transaction of the kind was the purchase from the executors of Hugh Rogers, deceased, of Plantation Northbrook, consisting of about five hundred acres (“situate in Courabana,” between Plantation Craig Milne and Plantation Belfield, on the East Coast, Demerara) by eighty-three freed Negroes in November, 1839. Fourteen years before, Plantation Northbrook had been a cotton estate with two hundred and eighty-five slaves, the property of Mr. James Stewart. Then cotton failed and a few cattle grazed on the front lands. When the estate was bought by the black people it had nothing of any value on it except two or three tumbledown houses. The purchase price was thirty thousand guilders. Two –thirds of this was paid down in hard cash, - “Spanish” dollars , guilders, two-bits, bits and half-bits “thrown -up” by the purchasers, the coins, some of them, black with the mud in which they had been buried. Transport was passed on January 4, 1841. In a petition to Governor Light the purchasers asked that they be allowed to “name our plantation after our Good and Gracious Young Queen, Victoria,” – a request granted by Her Majesty.
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