Description: This website details information relation to the Hibbert families commercial involvement in Jamaica, the slave and sugar trade and the building of the West India Docks.
jamaica (751) slavery (176) william wilberforce (6) george hibbert (2) hibbert family (2) the price of sugar (2) hibbert family trust (2) hibbert house (2) west india docks (2) abolition of slavery (2)
Since the launch of this research site many interested persons from the family historian to leading academics have contacted the site for further information. More excitingly, many have contacted the site willing to share their knowledge of the Hibbert family. This has led to many exciting discoveries of unknown journals, documents, diaries, portraits etc. To my surprise this site has also shown that there is considerable academic interest in members of the extended Hibbert family that I had not considered
Detailing a merchant family's involvement in and defence of the colonial slave trade based economy - volume 1