Hector Mitchell (Jamaica)

Hector Mitchell was an alderman,[1] magistrate in Kingston[2] and elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.[3]

With the mayor of Kingston Joseph Barnes, Mitchell persecuted two Jamaican free men of colour and had them deported from the island for an imaginary conspiracy against the government. The case was discussed in the British House of Commons.[2] Records relating to Mitchell's activities in Jamaica are held by the British National Archives.[4]

References
  1. "West Indian Affairs". Letter from "Brittanicus", The Examiner, 19 September 1825 (No. 920), pp. 593-594.
  2. Deportation of Messrs. Lecesne and Escoffery From Jamaica. Hansard, 16 June 1825, Vol. 13, cc1173-205.
  3. Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
  4. Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from Cuba.... National Archives. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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