Free Villages is the term used for Caribbean settlements, particularly in Jamaica, founded in the 1830s and 1840s independent of the control of plantation owners and other major estates.
Read more about Free Villages: Pioneering The Concept, Jamaica's First Free Village, Other Examples of Free Villages, Conditions For Those Left On The Estates After Abolition
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