Footnotes
1 On June 11 1685 the Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis in Dorset with the intention of removing King James II. The Duke was the illegitimate son of Charles II who had died 4 months earlier, James II was the younger brother of Charles II and the official legitimate heir, he was however also a Catholic. The Duke gathered the people up to fight for him as a Protestant and attacked the King's forces at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Bridgeport, Somerset July 6, 1685. The rebellion failed and the Duke was executed on July 15 1685.
2 Chesapeake was officially an English colony, although many Scots and Irish Scots were known to have settled and owned land there.
3 It was unusual for an enslaved African to live beyond their forties in the Caribbean. Many did not live beyond their twenties depending on their age on arrival.
4 He is also well-known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.
5 John Wedderburn and his brother James were Scottish Plantation owners and slave dealers. Inveresk Lodge was bought by James Wedderburn with some of the fortune he made in Jamaica. His mixed-race son, Robert Wedderburn, was born a slave and was a well-known anti-slavery abolitionist in London in the later 18th and early 19th centuries. He published the pamphlet Horrors of Slavery.
6 Sierra Leone was first settled by freed slaves sent from England and Canada in 1787. Later the Sierra Leone Company was founded and the idea was to have an area settled by freed and ex-slaves. The idea was supported by the abolitionist Granville Sharpe. The plan was not very successful as many of the Black settlers died, however in 1808 Freetown in Sierra Leone became a British colony and enslaved Africans captured by the British Navy on Slave Ships were often released to that colony.