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Shettlewood Pen, 70 in Crawle Pen, 153 in Caymanas, 276 in New Montpelier, and 373 in Old Montpelier. A total of 1,018 enslaved people were freed from Seaford's estates.
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155:slavery in the West Indies plantations
271:Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
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261:Memorial in St Georges Church, Esher
153:, Ellis was a prominent defender of
27:British politician, planter and peer
653:Member of Parliament for Heytesbury
222:Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
196:intervened to stop a third round.
536:"Charles Rose Ellis, Lord Seaford"
517:"Charles Rose Ellis, Lord Seaford"
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200:Emancipation and imported labour
151:Parliament of the United Kingdom
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