The Whitney Estate was a plantation in
Clarendon Parish,
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
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James Hakewill
James Hakewill (1778–1843) was an English architect, best known for his illustrated publications.
Life
The second son of John Hakewill, he was brought up as an architect, and exhibited some designs at the Royal Academy. He was collecting mat ...
visited the estate during his tour of Jamaica 1820–1. The estate was 3,243 in extent, all of which was fertile.
Edward Long
Edward Long (23 August 1734 – 13 March 1813) was an English-born British colonial administrator, slave owner and historian, and author of a highly controversial work, ''The History of Jamaica'' (1774). He was a polemic defender of slavery.
Li ...
wrote: ""The plantation(...) is one of the most celebrated for its fertility. It is a small dale surrounded with rocky hills, and so rich that it produces invariably three hundred hogsheads of sugar per annum, with so little labour upon it, that
he enslaved Africansmultiply sufficiently to keep up their stock, without having recourse to African recruits."
See also
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List of plantations in Jamaica
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for ...
References
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Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Plantations in Jamaica