| Description | Content Advice: This file includes items relating to enslavement, as well as offensive terms or terms that have changed meaning over time. In some cases these terms are included in our catalogue descriptions in order to provide information about the content and nature of the source.
1 Document entitled 'A List of Slaves on Gales Valley Estate', dated 01 January 1820, consisting of four pages. It comprises a list of 230 enslaved men, women and children on York Estate; and a list of 32 [free] 'People of Colour on York Estate'. The document includes details of the name, age and 'occupation' of each person, as well as the enslavers assessment of their 'condition'.
2 Document entitled 'List of Apprentices on Gales Valley Estate January 1st 1838', consisting of four pages. It comprises a list of 185 apprentices [formerly enslaved people who, following the Slavery Abolition Act, had to continue working for their former enslavers under an imposed apprenticeship system without compensation for a set number of years]. The document includes details of their name, age, 'colour', country of origin and 'occupation', including notes of women who were pregnant at the time of recording. Also includes a list entitled 'Increase and Decrease of Apprentices in 1837', including details of deaths and a purchase of apprenticeship. |