COLONIES AND SLAVERY Approximately 65 letters... - Lot 852 - Aguttes

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COLONIES AND SLAVERY Approximately 65 letters... - Lot 852 - Aguttes
COLONIES AND SLAVERY Approximately 65 letters and documents and 13 prints on colonies and slavery, 1723-1868 (defects to some documents). An important set of documents on the slave trade and slaves in the colonies. Business letters, family or friendly, relating to the gift, purchase or sale of slaves: between Sauvage in Saint-Domingue and Daubé at Bordeaux, 1723-1726; Dominique Garderet in Saint-Marc to Chevalier Dequeux in Port-au-Prince, 1755; Dargent de Frenoy in Le Morne rouge, 1789 Circular concerning the loss of a slave ship kidnapped by the Portuguese (Bordeaux 1745). Power of attorney for the farm of a dwelling at Le Bouassin in Santo Domingo (Bordeaux 1746). 5 deeds of sale of properties in Saint-Domingue with their slaves, 1770-1786: at Cap Français, at Saint-Marc (by the brothers de Marq at S. Guillebet de la Tour), in the heights of the Artibonite (by the Dubergé to Jean Jolly dit Lagranderaque), at the Grande Rivière, at Jérémie (by the chevalier de Boutier de la Cardonnie to sieurs Clément and Boutinot Desrivaux). Tax slips (Bordeaux 1777, Port-au-Prince 1778). Testament of François-Toussaint Gouvion at the Grande Rivière, ordering the liberation of slaves to whom he made various donations (Saint-Domingue 1788). Inventory of a dwelling with a sugar factory and refinery in Ouanaminthe (Saint-Domingue) after the death of Jean-Élie Sans, June-July 1789: details and value of buildings, land, furniture, tools, livestock, etc., and long lists of negroes, negresses, negrittes (118 p., spots and wet spots, missing from the last page). Business letters concerning the organization of the slave trade: Guieu & Bion from Port-au-Prince to the Lacombe brothers in Bordeaux (1789); to the Foache brothers in Le Havre in October 1789 by J. Desguetz (Saint-Malo), Baudouin (Nantes), and Labalmondière (Dunkirk). Inventory of the goods and papers of citizen Dumagen, in his home in S
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