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Entry Type	Person
Forenames	Nancy
Place	Blue Mountain plantation, St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey, Jamaica
Epithet	enslaved seamstress on the Blue Mountain plantation
Dates	fl 1770s
Gender Identity	Female
Cultural Heritage	African descent
Biography	In a 1774 letter, it was reported that Nancy had been trained as a sempstress [seamstress]. She had previously worked in the fields. Nancy was described as a 'mulatto', i.e. a person of mixed African and European descent; her mother was likely to have been an enslaved African, and her father an enslaver. She can not be identified in any of the lists of enslaved people at the Blue Mountain estate.
Authorised Form of Name	Nancy (fl 1770s); enslaved seamstress on the Blue Mountain plantation

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