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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 73

The Post Town Straight Line Handstamps
Type T4 in a Single Line
1839 (12 Mar.) entire letter "p Packet" to London, rated "Paid 2/2" and "Inland & Packet postage paid 5/-" and showing "black river" alongside "jamaica/paid" PD3 datestamp in red (a very late date of use) and London arrival datestamp (6.5). PS4. Photo

Note: The letter includes "The Black gentry will do little but work, none of them more than three or four days a week and the greater part of them will not work at all. We are still in hopes some decisive measures will be taken to bring them to their senses otherwise goodbye to Sugar and Coffee from Jamaica". These comments resulted from the complete abolition of slavery in Jamaica on 1 August 1838, when many former slaves became viable small peasant farmers themselves. Such was the shortage of plantation workers, and with the imminent collapse of the sugar industry, that from 1845 indentured labour was imported from India

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