Stedman Rawlins

Stedman Rawlins (c. 1784–1830) was a slaveholder and sugar plantation owner, and the President of His Majesty's Council, on the Caribbean island of St. Christopher.

[2][4] The French used one of the Rawlins Sr. plantations to bomb British fortifications on Brimstone Hill during the American Revolution.

He owned the Verchild's and the Crab Hole plantations.

Rawlins was one of the magistrates that ruled against slave Betto Douglas's complaint of cruelty, returning her to her master after he had kept her in stocks for 7 months in 1826.

He had recently come to this country [Nova Scotia] in the hope of restoring his constitution, debilitated by a long residence in the West Indies.

Hon. Stedman Rawlins plantations and Negro houses, island of Saint Christopher, 1828 (inset)
Hon Stedman Rawlins, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
One of the Rawlins' plantations (left), St. Kitts (1782) [ 1 ]