Submitted by Philip Power
In the British West Indies much of the early capital to finance White slavery came from Sephardic Jews from Holland. They provided credit, machinery and shipping facilities. In the 1630s Dutch Jews had been deeply involved in the enslavement of the Irish, financing their transport to slave plantations in the tropics. By the 1660s, this combination of Jewish finance and White slave labor made the British island colony of Barbados the richest in the empire. The island’s value, in terms of trade and capital exceeded that of all other British colonies combined. (John Oldmixon, The British Empire in America, vol. 2, p. 186.)
The first aid kit has a World War II soldier’s name on it, E Kennedy #378052, but the diary does not. Ernest William Kennedy was from Southland. ”If I can’t find them, I’ll give them to an RSA or a museum,” he said. Kennedy died on October 1, 1992, at age 71. He shares a grave with his wife Dulcie and son Ronald at Eastern Cemetery in Invercargill. The online cenotaph Auckland War Memorial records showed Kennedy was a carpenter s apprentice in Invercargill before enlisting with the army. His next of kin was Mrs J Kennedy, of Mary St, Otautau.
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Ambrose Madison was a merchant and planter. The grandfather of President James Madison, he was murdered by three enslaved people shortly after moving to the estate that would become Montpelier. Born in King and Queen County, he acquired land and dealt in large sums of money from a young age. His father-in-law, a surveyor, had long been interested in the Piedmont region of Virginia and acquired land in the part of Spotsylvania County that later became Orange County. In 1723 he gave 4,675 acres to his two sons-in-law, including Madison, who sent a team of mostly enslaved people west to clear the land and plant tobacco. In the spring of 1732 Madison and his family moved to the estate, which he called Mount Pleasant. A few months later, however, he fell ill and died. Three enslaved people were convicted of poisoning him and one was executed.
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Auctioneer Bill Todd inspects some of the memorabilia being auctioned for Janice Goldsmith at Mabel Bush on Saturday. Janice Goldsmith and her family are keeping some pieces as she prepares to move to Dunedin. Asked if she was sad to sell most of the collection, Goldsmith said: “No, there’s no point in being sad, it doesn’t get you anywhere.” She and her late husband collected memorabilia from a variety of industries during the past 70 years, including farming and Southland businesses. Furniture from the colonial era and numerous signs including one from David Strang Coffee and Spice Works, which operated in Esk St, Invercargill, from 1872 to 1966.