Three women called Phoebe on Good Hope
Two individuals on the Good Hope estate are listed with a mother called Phoebe in the 1817 slave register: Chloe (b. 1789) and Clarke (b. 1790).
There were three women called Phoebe on the estate. The oldest was born in Africa in 1761, the second in Jamaica in 1765 and the third in Africa in 1777. The youngest Phoebe died in 1832 but the deaths of the other two were not recorded in the slave lists.
Chloe was named as the mother of five children on the estate: Jane Brebner (b. 1807), Ben (b. 1813), Eleanor (b. 1817), Susannah (b. and d. 1823) and Thomas (b. 1824).
By the date of this exchange, the slave trade had long been abolished, and this prohibited the transportation of newly enslaved people from Africa. However, people who were already enslaved could still be bought, sold and (as in this case) exchanged within and between colonies where slavery persisted.
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