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Entry Type	Person
Forenames	Peggy Derry
Place	Barbados
Epithet	enslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation
Dates	fl 1771
Gender Identity	Female
Cultural Heritage	African descent
Biography	Peggy Derry was an enslaved African on the Turners Hall sugar plantation in Barbados. She first appears in the 1771 list where 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	Peggy Derry (fl 1771); enslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation

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