Record

Entry Type	Person
Forenames	Cockah
Place	Barbados
Epithet	enslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation
Dates	fl 1771
Gender Identity	Female
Cultural Heritage	African descent
Biography	Cockah 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 meat gang. The meat gang weeded the fields and cared for the animals, and was made up of the very young and very old.
Authorised Form of Name	Cockah (fl 1771); enslaved woman on the Turners Hall plantation

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