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54:(dealing with sugar cane and coffee) and his wife Abigail da Castro. Alexander Bravo was seated at a villa named Bravo Penn. He was a member of the Kingston Common Council and Custos of the parish of Clarendon. He had three brothers, including Charles Clement and Phineas Bravo.
92:(2001), the election results represented an alliance of free blacks and coloureds in alliance against Bravo; the result was 142 to Watkins, 92 to Bravo. In 1835, Bravo became the first Jew to be elected to the
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