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John Hope (1765-1823) Edinburgh/Scotland
Scottish politician and general in the British Army.
WHO ALSO owned plantations in Grenada and Dominica and was involved in suppressing the slave uprising in Grenada between 1795 and 1796. The defeat of the rebellion helped secure continued British colonial control and the persistence of slavery on the island for several decades thereafter.
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