| Description | Report on the Estates of Bacolet, Speyside and Trois Rivieres, in the Island of Tobago, by John Mackenzie, with particular description of Speyside and Trois Rivieres (for Bacolet, see MS 3600/1/14/1/22), including manuring practices; varying qualities of sugar; potential for growing cotton, coffee and indigo; problems with labour; buildings on the two estates, and hurricane damage; wages; livestock; account of previous management; praise of the Creole couple managing Speyside (the husband was educated in the North of Scotland); comparisons between black and white overseers; recommendations for the future (with transcription), 23 May 1852 |