Whitney Estate

The Whitney Estate was a plantation in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.

Whitney Estate, 1820 The Mocho Mountains are in the background

James Hakewill visited the estate during his tour of Jamaica 1820-1. The estate was 3,243 in extent, all of which was fertile.[1] Edward Long wrote: ""The plantation(...) is one of the most celebrated for its fertility. It is a small dale surrounded with rocky hills, and so rich that it produces invariably three hundred hogsheads of sugar per annum, with so little labour upon it, that [the enslaved Africans] multiply sufficiently to keep up their stock, without having recourse to African recruits." [2]

See also

References
  1. "Whitney Estate, Clarendon Plate 31". On-line Gallery. British Library. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. Long, Edward (1774). History of Jamaica.

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