| 词条 | Mesopotamia, Jamaica |
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Mesopotamia was a sugar plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, north of Savanna-la-Mar[2] on the Cabaritta River. It was adjacent to the Friendship and Greenwich estate. HistoryThe plantation was established around 1700 and according to official returns was one of 23 sugar plantations in the parish that employed over 200 slaves.[3] It was associated with the Barham family. It was first in the ownership of Dr Henry Barham (c.1728-1746) and subsequently Joseph Foster Barham (c.1746-1789) and Joseph Foster Barham II (c.1789-1832). The chemist John Buddle Blyth was baptised at Mesopotamia in 1816.[4][5] His father John Blythe was attorney for Mesopotamia in the early 19th-century.[6] References1. ^[https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=13&lat=18.2607&lon=-78.1524&layers=74428076&b=9a James Robertson map of 1804.] National Library of Scotland. 16 January 2019. 2. ^[https://www.geni.com/projects/Mesopotamia-Plantation-Savanna-la-Mar-Westmoreland-Jamaica/24865 Mesopotamia Plantation, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica.] Geni. Retrieved 16 January 2019. 3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=QpyWi_NCyukC&pg=PA52 "Sugar Production and Slave Women in Jamaica"] by Richard S. Dunn in {{cite book|author=Ira Berlin & Philip D. Morgan (Eds.)|title=Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas|url=|year=1993|publisher=University Press of Virginia|location=Charlottesville|isbn=978-0-8139-1424-4|pages=49–72 (p. 52)}} 4. ^[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-DDLH-2?i=99&cc=1827268 John Binddle Blyth Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880.] Family Search. Retrieved 16 January 2019. {{subscription required}} 5. ^[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146634372 John Blyth.] Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019. 6. ^[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1668 Mesopotamia.] University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019. External links{{commons category|Plantations in Jamaica}}
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