Beckford, William

has biography | a une biographie: British-Jamaican slave-owner and politician in the eighteenth century. Born into a wealthy colonial family in Jamaica, Beckford owned a huge number of enslaved people as well as considerable amount of land in the colony. In Beckford's estate probate in 1774, for example, he was listed as the owner of a total of 1,356 enslaved people in Jamaica. Beckford's colonial wealth enabled him to become Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769.
was born | est né: 19 December 1709
died in | est mort par: 21 June 1770
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - William Beckford; Wikipedia - Tacky's Revolt; History of Parliament Online; Legacies of British Slavery; National Portrait Gallery; Beckford's Tower and Museum; Madge Dresser, 'Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London', History Workshop Journal, 64, 1 (2007) 162–199; Robert Beckford, 'A plaque on a statue can’t cover a cruel slave trader’s mass murder. My ancestors deserve better', The Guardian (2023); Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The Story Of An Atlantic Slave War (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020); Trevor Burnard, Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020); Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

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