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DR RITA PEMBERTON AFTER EMANCIPATION, many plantations in the British Caribbean faced challenges related to increased competition on the sugar market, falling prices, labour problems, increases in freight, duties, taxes and production costs and shortage of credit. Concern about the growing number of insolvent estates caused the British Parliament to pass a series of laws, ....
In 1852, Fr Peter Daly purchased the estate of Kilcorkey from the Encumbered Estates Court. The owner of an adjoining site subsequently disputed his title to a particular plot and brought proceedings against him. Peter Daly, however, proceeded to construct on the plot in question a building he described as ....