A scene of a busy market in the West Indies with enslaved, free Africans, and white mingling amongst the vendors: The Black vendors are seated on the ground with their wares displayed around them, including produce (mellons, pineapples, bananas, etc.)...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed by Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Animals, Farm produce, Markets, Poultry, and Slave trade
Printed form on parchment, completed in manuscript, signed, appointing John Hope Smith governor-in-chief at Cape Coast Castle for "the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa."
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Great Britain, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Smith, John Hope., Cape Coast Castle (Cape Coast, Ghana), and Company of Merchants Trading to Africa.
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution a...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Five manuscript documents concerning Robert Bostock's involvement in the recently outlawed slave trade. The earliest is the November 1810 agreement between Bostock, Mason and five "Gallinas gentlemen" that allowed Bostock and Mason to establish their ...
Description:
Robert Bostock was a Liverpool trader who continued to be involved in the slave trade after its abolition by Parliament in 1807. His factory on Bunce Island was raided by H.M.S. Thais in 1813 and 233 slaves were seized. Also captured were Bostock, his...
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, West, Great Britain, and United States
Subject (Name):
Bostock, Robert, 1784-1847., Browne, John Edward., Hayes, Philippa., Mason, Charles, fl. 1810., Mills, John Stirling., Roach, Captain., Kitty (Ship), and Thais (Ship)
Autograph manuscript diary written by Robert J. Brown during travel from Boston to Florida Territory, 1834-1835. Entries describe travel by steamboat, stagecoach, and railroad, and record impressions of natural features, commerce, urban development, ...
Description:
Spring Garden, a sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory, was acquired in 1830 by Orlando Savage Rees (1796-1852), of Stateburg, South Carolina. In 1835 December, during the Second Seminole War, Spring Garden was occu...
Subject (Geographic):
Florida, Volusia County., Florida., South Carolina, Charleston., Virginia, Richmond., South Carolina., Virginia., De Leon Springs (Fla.), Florida Panhandle (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Johns River (Fla.), South Atlantic States, Spring Garden Plantation (Fla.), United States, Volusia County (Fla.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835. and Rees, Orlando Savage, 1796-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Alligator hunting, Black Seminoles, Indians of North America, Orange growers, Seminole Indians, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842, Slave trade, Slavery, Sugar, Manufacture and refining, Sugar plantations, Description and travel, and History
On the deck of a slave ship a Black girl is suspended by her ankle by a British sailor as the captain prepares to whip her with a chain. In the background two other sailors wander off indifferently on the right and on the left a group of enslaved peop...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub April 10, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Picca[dilly]
Subject (Name):
Kimber, John
Subject (Topic):
Slave ships, Slave trade, Punishment & torture, and Whips
