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Parthenia
Place
Barbados
Epithet
enslaved girl on the Turners Hall plantation
Dates
fl 1759-1771
Gender Identity
Female
Cultural Heritage
African
Biography
Parthenia was an enslaved African on the Turners Hall sugar plantation in Barbados, who first appears in the records on 31 December 1759 as a child. In 1771 she was recorded as working in the great gang. The people in the great gang would be between about 18 and 30 years old, and did the hardest labour in the fields.
Authorised Form of Name
Parthenia (fl 1759-1771); enslaved girl on the Turners Hall plantation
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