List of Slave Owners and Number of Liberated Individuals on Corn Island ( 27 August 1841)
This is an authentic transcript from the original document declaring the emancipation of enslaved people on Corn Island on Friday, 27 August 1841. The emancipation was carried out by Colonel Alexander McDonald in the presence of the listed slave owners and the King of the Mosquito Coast, Robert Charles Frederic. The document was recovered from the British Archives. Below is the list, as it appears in the archives, of the individuals and the number of enslaved people associated with them:
Summary
- Martha Gough: 19
- John Bowden: 4
- Catherine Gough: 6
- Thomas Hunter: 20
- Martha Downes: 19
- Newton Downes junr.: 1
- Christopher Downes: 1
- Dorcas Hooker: 4
- Anne Hooker: 1
- Nelly Frances: 2
- Eleanor Taylor: 4
- Lydia Brown: 12
- Esther Downes: 1
- James Cottrell: 1
- Joseph Manuel: 1
- Margaret Downes: 1
- Maria Forbes: 1
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James Bowden
Commandant
