Plantation Peter's Hall
Georgetown | |
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Coffee and sugar plantation | |
Location in British Guiana and South America | |
Coordinates: 6°46′19″N 58°11′15″W / 6.771916°N 58.18744°W | |
Country | British Guiana |
Established | c.1755 |
Plantation Peter's Hall was a plantation on the east bank of the River Demerara in Dutch Guiana and British Guiana. It was probably laid out in the mid-eighteenth century and by the early nineteenth century had over 200 slaves before that institution was abolished in the British Empire.
In 1870 it was one of the plantations inspected in detail by the commissioners investigating labour conditions in the colony. They found the majority of the workers to be indentured labourers from India and China. In the early twentieth century its workers participated in the unrest that was seen on a number of plantations in Georgetown.
Plantation Peter's Hall is now the name of a suburb of Georgetown in modern Guyana.