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- ↑ John Lunan. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ↑ Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
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