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Bessey
Place
Barbados
Epithet
enslaved girl on the Turners Hall plantation
Dates
fl 1759-1771
Gender Identity
Female
Cultural Heritage
African
Biography
Bessey 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 a girl working in the second gang. The second gang laboured in the fields, but was not worked as hard as the great gang. It would have been made up of younger teenagers, pregnant women, and people who were no longer able to work in the great gang, perhaps aged from around 28 to 50.
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Bessey (fl 1759-1771); enslaved girl on the Turners Hall plantation
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