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Entry Type	Person
Forenames	Polly
Place	Grange Hill plantation, St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey, Jamaica
Epithet	Enslaved plantation worker on the Grange Hill plantation, Jamaica
Dates	d 1814
Gender Identity	Female
Cultural Heritage	African descent
Biography	Polly was enslaved on the Grange Hill plantation. She is recorded as having died of 'dirt eating' at Grange Hill in 1814 but her age wasn't given. Dirt eating was and remains a common practice in African and European communities and would not have caused Polly's death, which may instead have been due to malnutrition.
Authorised Form of Name	Polly (d 1814); enslaved plantation worker on the Grange Hill plantation, Jamaica

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