{{Short description|Sugar plantation in Port Maria, Jamaica}} [[File:Hakewill, A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, Plate 11.jpg|thumb|right|Frontier Estate, 1825 by James Hakewill]] [[File:Trinity plantation on James Robertson's map of 1804.png|thumb|right|Frontier Estate on map by James Robertson, 1804]] '''Frontier Estate''' was a sugar plantation located in Port Maria, Jamaica.<ref name="LBS">{{cite web |title=Frontier Estate |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2376 |website=www.ucl.ac.uk |publisher=University College London |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832.<ref name="Higman">{{cite book |last1=Higman |first1=B. W. |title=Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |date=2001 |publisher=University of the West Indies Press |location=Mona |isbn=9789766401139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_sPBnsQXV8C&q=%22Frontier+Estate+Jamaica&pg=PA248 |language=en}}</ref> Following emancipation in 1834, the formerly enslaved Africans were obliged to remain on the plantations as "apprentices", whereby they worked as before for three-quarters of their time, but were free to sell their labour outside these hours.<ref name="db">{{cite web |title=The end of slavery {{!}} Apprenticeship: slavery by another name? {{!}} Freedom from slavery {{!}} Against Slavery {{!}} Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery {{!}} PortCities Bristol |url=http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/freedom-from-slavery/apprenticeship/slavery-end/ |website=www.discoveringbristol.org.uk |publisher=Bristol City Council |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> Originally planned to last eight years, public pressure brought these "apprenticeships" to an end in 1838. At this time there were 268 "apprentices" at Frontier.<ref name="Higman"/>
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