Slave Schedules

Census records about the enslaved labourers are known as ‘slave schedules’ or ‘slave registers’. There is quite a bit of information on the enslaved labourers of Wallibou including their names, age, gender, and their occupation over the first half of the nineteenth century.

1806 Wallibou slave register as recorded in the 1806 Deed Book for St. Vincent and the Grenadines:

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1806 Wallibou slave schedule 5 of 12

According to 1825 An Account of the number of slaves employed and quantity of produce grown on the several esstates in the island of Saint Vincent and its dependencies from the year 1801 to 1818 and from that period to 1824, inclusive. Compiled from the Official Returns. Kingstown: Gazette Office.

 

An Account of the number of slaves employed

According to https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estates here is the number of slaves on Wallibou by year from 1817 onwards:

  • 1817  [Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot) [Name] Wallibou Estate
  • 1822  [Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot) 120(F) 100(M) [Name] Wallibou Estate
  • 1825  [Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot) 126(F) 98(M) [Name] Wallibou Estate
  • 1827  [Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot) 124(F) 93(M) [Name] Wallibo Estate
  • 1830  [Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot) 123(F) 78(M) [Name] Wallibo Estate
  • 1834  [Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot) 109(F) 72(M) [Name] Wallibou Estate

Ancestry.co.uk provides free access to slave registers from former British colonial dependencies from 1813-1834: