Harvard Professor’s new interactive site uncovers hidden slave histories in Jamaica and Virginia
Betty was born in Jamaica in the summer of 1739. She married and had seven children. When Betty was 46 years old, Joseph Foster Barham, British absentee owner of a Jamaican sugar plantation, bought her for just £40 along with husband Qua and all her children, this is their story… Today, Monday 13 October 2014,…