Joshua Steele
1700 – 1796
Joshua Steele, born in Ireland, was a successful Barbados planter, a writer on prosody and an advocate of abolition.
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Steele is known for analyzing David Garrick’s famous performance of Hamlet. Steele came to favor emancipation, reforming his plantation to be managed largely by the enslaved themselves, preparing them for eventual freedom which he granted in 1789. His reforms trebled production, proving that liberty worked better than force. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was known to favor the American cause. He died in Barbados in 1796.
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