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CONTENT WARNINGOFFENSIVE AND OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE This catalogue and the archives it describes contain highly offensive and oppressive language. Some of the language has been included in the catalogue description to publicly reflect the attitudes of the time the records were written.
Archive Reference / Library Class No.D239/M/E/16748
TitleMalcom Laing to William Philp Perrin: shipping is so scarce it is reckoned that 15,000 hogshead await passage from Jamaica; the sugar at Vere has suffered from the wet; at Grange Hill the "negroes" are generally in poor health; Blechynden still threatens to prosecute; Laing suggests buying him off.
Date21 Sep 1772
DescriptionMicrofilmed M784
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorFitzHerbert family of Tissington
CopiesMicrofilm M784
TermSlavery
Black peoples
Slaves
Places
Place (click for further details)Type
JamaicaCountry
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