149:. His eldest son, John Foster Barham, inherited the Mesopotamia estate. John closed the Moravian mission there, and showed little interest in the estate, except in terms of how much compensation he was due to receive. John valued his slaves at Β£43 each, and claimed a total of over Β£13,000, but the Commissioner of Compensation awarded him a smaller figure of less than Β£6,000. In 1836, John was put under medical superintendence, and a year later he was certified as being of "unsound mind". He married Lady Katherine Grimston, but they had no children.
84:, and transferred the 112 slaves there to Mesopotamia. The Springfield slaves were transferred against their will, and many ran away to try to find their way back to Springfield. The estate's slave population reached a peak of 421, but the poor conditions there meant that deaths exceeded births at such a rapid rate that by the time the
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in principle, though his views were hedged with caveats. His abolitionist views did not extend to freeing the slaves on his own estates, and he argued that the slaves were unfit for freedom and needed "moral improvement". He produced plans for introducing Asian labour to run
Caribbean plantations (as
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In 1781, while travelling back from
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British capital upheld the Spanish slave trade, half of the Danish, and part of the Portuguese. Foster Barham continually opposed the emancipation of the slaves, and supported the sugar interests in Jamaica.
54:, which he then managed for the next two years. He spent money renovating the great houses, but the estate's attorney, John Van Heilen, complained to the older Joseph that his son was not a prudent manager of the plantations.
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