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,
Dr Rita Pemberton The contrasting attitudes of plantation owners and the freed African population to the implementation of the law that terminated enslavement in the British Caribbean possessions in 1838, set the stage for ongoing tension and conflict in post emancipation Caribbean. While plantation owners received a compensation package of a £20 million grant for
Reason Whitleigh does not show in Plymouth s Covid-19 cluster map
Barne Barton, St Judes and Milehouse are also not named on the breakdown of cluster areas
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Many residents in Whitleigh have continually asked why the area they live is missed off of the coronavirus cluster map figures.
The Government releases data including new positive coronavirus cases for Plymouth every day, with the coronavirus cluster map showing which areas across the city have had three or more cases in one seven-day-period.
Plymouth has been split into 32 Middle Layer Super Output Areas [MSOA], which means some parts of the city may be split into other areas across the city.