Английская Википедия:Amaryllis Collymore
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Amaryllis Collymore (1745–1828) was an Afro-Barbadian slave who gained her freedom from her relationship with a white man. The couple had eleven children and she successfully ran a plantation allowing her to acquire numerous other properties, to become the wealthiest free black woman in the colony at the time of her death.
Life
Amaryllis Renn Phillips was born into slavery in 1745[Notes 1] on Barbados, during British colonial ruleШаблон:Sfn where records indicate she was a mulatto.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was purchased by Robert Collymore in 1780, from Rebecca Phillips, a free coloured hotelier,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn along with her five mulatto children,Шаблон:Sfn four of whom were Robert's children.Шаблон:Sfn In 1784, Robert arranged their manumission by selling her and the children to a friend, James Scuffield.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Selling a slave to a trusted third-party to avoid high manumission fees was a common practice during the period in Barbados.Шаблон:Sfn
Robert acquired Lightfoots, a 42-acre sugar plantation with its 44 slaves, to provide for her and the children.Шаблон:Sfn Collymore expanded the estate to over a hundred acresШаблон:Sfn and was able to buy seven properties throughout Bridgetown, on Canary Street, High Street and James Street, which she rented out.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She also ran a successful shop.Шаблон:Sfn By 1805, Collymore owned another property, on Roebuck Street, which she sold for £800.Шаблон:Sfn She and her daughter, Katherine Anne Collymore, were the recipients of a bequest from Renn Phillips in his 1809 will.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1824, when Robert died, he bequeathed she and her eleven children, full title to Lightfoots and the slaves working on the plantation.Шаблон:Sfn Among her children, besides Katherine were Frances Lasley, Margaret Jane, and Robert (baptized 18 February 1792),Шаблон:Sfn Thomazin Ashby (baptized 6 June 1795),Шаблон:Sfn Elizabeth Clarke (baptized 13 June 1798),Шаблон:Sfn Samuel Francis Collymore, Jackson Brown CollymoreШаблон:Sfn and Renn Phillips Collymore, who would become the great-great grandfather of Frank Collymore.Шаблон:Sfn Collymore's will, dated 1826Шаблон:Sfn (or 1829 but which was probably the date the estate was probated),Шаблон:Sfn left her estate, worth over £10,000 to relatives. She devised a home in Bridgetown and a plantation known as Haggat Hall, and 67 slaves, as well as silver and personal property.Шаблон:Sfn At the time of her death she was "the richest free woman of color in pre-emancipation Barbados".Шаблон:Sfn
Death and legacy
Collymore died on 16 December 1828 and was buried in the St. Mary's Churchyard in Bridgetown.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The house that Collymore and her children occupied is now the Morningside Building, and houses the Arts Department of the Barbados Community College.Шаблон:Sfn
See also
Other former enslaved women who became slave-owners in Barbados:
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