CALL AND RESPONSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW AND SLAVERY

PEGGY

Appraisement of the slaves, stock, buildings and land of the Invera Estate, Tobago, 28 March 1829

Appraisement of the slaves, stock, buildings and land of the Invera Estate, Tobago, 28 March 1829
University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen 946/4

This inventory lists the individual and total value assigned by slave-holders to 120 enslaved men, women and children who worked on the Invera Estate in Tobago. The total value of the Estate at the time of this survey was £13,862. Of this total, £4,689 was the appraisal value of the people. The document was gifted to the University in 1934 by Thomas Fraser Campbell of Helensburgh.

Professor Simon Newman“This is a document about exploitation and human misery in pursuit of profit, yet it tells us very little about the people listed. What of Peggy, the 34 year-old who laboured in the plantation’s sugar fields? From further research we know she was an Igbo woman born in present-day Nigeria and transported to Tobago as a child. This document was created as an inventory but it is also a memorial.”

Professor Simon Newman 
Sir Denis Brogan Chair of American History 
University of Glasgow

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