Paterson moved to Jamaica after financial hardship, where she met and married John Palmer, the wealthy owner of the sprawling Rose Hall sugar cane plantation. Annie supposedly murdered her husband ...

Kamala Harris is descended from an owner of 120-plus slaves who ran a Jamaican plantation and fought against the abolition of the abhorrent trade, a British historian claimed today. The Democrat ...

Harris, who is of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, is the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of "Hamilton Brown, who is ...

He moved to the British colony of Jamaica when he was a teenager and later became a sugar plantation owner. “Hamilton Brown was a notorious figure and not a nice fellow,” historian Stephen ...

Ben Sklar Supported by By Isabel Wilkinson Schor BY THE TIME Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, a number of the sugar plantation owners there had moved on, but the island remained a ...

a white plantation and slave owner in Jamaica during the early 19th century. The professor, who was born in Jamaica, wrote: My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss ...

PLAUDITS to Sherman Theatre for reprising its stunning piece of theatre about slavery and how Cardiff’s district of Llanrumney became the name of a slave plantation in Jamaica ... with Nia Roberts as ...

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has revealed that one of his ancestors owned enslaved people on a Jamaican plantation ... James Fergusson, the plantation owner. Fergusson received ...

Mr Welby, 68, said in a personal statement that his great great great grandfather Sir James Fergusson owned slaves at the Rozelle Plantation in St Thomas, Jamaica, and received compensation from ...