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Entry TypePerson
ForenamesBessey
PlaceBarbados
Epithetenslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation
Datesfl 1759-1771
Gender IdentityFemale
Cultural HeritageAfrican
BiographyBessey was an enslaved African on the Turners Hall sugar plantation in Barbados, who first appears in the records on 31 December 1759. In 1771 she was recorded as a simpstress [seamstress].
Authorised Form of NameBessey (fl 1759-1771); enslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation

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