James Beckford Wildman (19 October 1789 – 25 May 1867) was an

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landowner and

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politician who served as a

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(MP) for

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from 1818 to 1826. His properties included

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and

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Burke, John (1832)
"A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire"page 111
H. Colburn and R. Bentley. in

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, which he sold in 1861. The Jamaican plantation, Quebec Estate, was obtained by the Wildman family from William Beckford. Beckford claimed to have been swindled by the Wildmans, who pressured him to sign over the property under threat of calling in outstanding mortgages. Quebec Estate was one of the largest sugar plantations in Jamaica with well over 800 slaves (the average at that time was 200). The profits from this plantation allowed

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to purchase (and renovate)

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from

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. In 1830, Wildman complained to

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about the treatment of one of his slaves, Eleanor James, by the proprietor of an estate called North Hall. (James was flogged for requesting payment for a hog.) In 1840,

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visited the estate and described the trial of a Myalist that took place there.

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