DEATH OF FREED SLAVE.
AGE OF 11G
BRANDED CHEST,
William Campl>ell, one of the last surviving freed salves in the Colony, has died Tn Tobago at the reputed age ol Bv hard work and thrift he had become one of the largest peasant proprietors in the S]X.'yside district, to which lie went in 1800 from St. Helena after he had been rescued by a British ' warship from a Portuguese slave tra.d-
Ho is survived by his third wife, a woman about half his age, whom he married a few years ago and b.t several children by his first marriage, as well as grandchildren a.ml great-grand-children! Campbell bore on his chest a mark branded there by his former ovvn-
Cr One other freed slave, known oh “Ole Edward,” lives in lohago v.heic he arrived 10 years after Campbell.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 89, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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137DEATH OF FREED SLAVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 89, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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