Question

what did the plantation owner do in india?

Answer 1

Many of the earliest British plantation owners were from Bristol and the West Country. The Bristol merchant Colonel George Standfast, for example, established a plantation producing sugar in Barbados in the Caribbean by the 1650s. His son employed 238 enslaved Africans by 1679. Sir John Yeamans, who once lived at Redland Court in Bristol, was one of the early settlers to prosper on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He owned a sugar plantation in Barbados and established a colony in South Carolina, America, where slaves were used. Yeamans’ brother Robert (pictured here) was the Sheriff, Mayor and Chief Magistrate of Bristol, as well as a merchant who had an early involvement in the Caribbean trade. John Dukinfield, from Bristol was a slave trader and member of the Society of Merchant Venturers, an elite body of Bristol merchants involved in overseas trade. His son, Robert, was left a large slave plantation by his father, in Jamaica in the 1750s.