# Frontier Estate

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**Frontier Estate** was a [sugar plantation](/source/Sugar_plantation) located in [Port Maria](/source/Port_Maria), [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica).[1] The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832.[2] Following [emancipation](/source/History_of_Jamaica#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.[3] 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.[2]

## References

1. ["Frontier Estate"](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2376). *www.ucl.ac.uk*. University College London. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

1. Higman, B. W. (2001). [*Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries*](https://books.google.com/books?id=v_sPBnsQXV8C&q=%22Frontier+Estate+Jamaica&pg=PA248). Mona: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401139.

1. ["The end of slavery | Apprenticeship: slavery by another name? | Freedom from slavery | Against Slavery | Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery | PortCities Bristol"](http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/freedom-from-slavery/apprenticeship/slavery-end/). *www.discoveringbristol.org.uk*. Bristol City Council. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

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