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Lambert, David (2011) Afterword : critical geographies of slavery. Historical Geography , Volume 39 (Number 1). pp. 174-181. ISSN 2331-7523.
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Abstract
In October 1808, a Scotsman named James MacQueen was engaged to survey the Adelphi Estate in the mountainous interior of the Caribbean island of Grenada. The owner, John White, wished to subdivide the
land in order to sell it off. MacQueen was a commissioned land surveyor in the colony, as well as being an experienced plantation manager. In the course of carrying out White’s instructions, MacQueen directed four
enslaved men to clear the undergrowth at Adelphi with machetes and saws. He and his assistant then undertook the survey using compass and chains, recording measurements of angles and distances in a field book,
before marking the sub-plots with boundary stones placed on the ground. Returning to the estate where he lived as manger, MacQueen protracted the recorded measurements to produce a rough copy of Adelphi. From
this he drew up a fair copy of the plan for his client, as well as copies for the six men to whom the sub-plots were to be sold. He then presented White with his bill.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Slavery -- Grenada, Surveying -- Grenada -- History, Historical geography | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Historical Geography | ||||
| Publisher: | Louisiana State University. Department of Geography and Anthropology | ||||
| ISSN: | 2331-7523 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 39 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 174-181 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 |
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