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COLONIES ET ESCLAVAGE Environ 65 lettres et documents et 13 imprimés sur l

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COLONIES AND SLAVERY Approximately 65 letters and documents and 13 printed documents on the colonies and slavery, 1723-1868 (defects to some documents).
Important set 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 in 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 taken by the Portuguese
(Bordeaux 1745).
Power of attorney for the farm of a house in Bouassin in Saint-
Domingue (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 to S. Guillebet de la Tour), in the upper Artibonite (by the Dubergé to Jean Jolly dit Lagranderaque), at Grande Rivière, at Jérémie (by the chevalier de Boutier de la Cardonnie to sieurs Clément and Booutinot Desrivaux).Bordereaux fiscaux (Bordeaux 1777, Port-au-Prince 1778).
Will of François-Toussaint Gouvion at Grande Rivière, ordering the liberation of slaves to whom he made various gifts (Saint-
Domingue 1788).
Inventory of a dwelling with a sugar mill and refinery in Ouanaminthe (Saint-Domingue) after the death of Jean-Élie Sans, June-July 1789: details and valuation of buildings, land, furniture, tools, livestock, etc., and long lists of negroes, negresses, negrillons, negrittes (118 p., stains and wetness, last leaf missing). Business letters concerning the organization of the trade: Guieu & Bion of Port-au-Prince to the Lacombe brothers in Bordeaux (1789)| to the Foache brothers at
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 house in Saint-Louis and his coffee plantation in Morne Saint-Louis: buildings, lands, furniture, slaves, etc. (Saint-Domingue year XI).
File with inventories, petitions and claims for compensation concerning the Fondin de Bayardel dwellings, parish of Jérémie,
Saint-Domingue 1791-1825. Letter from E. Dillon to Mr. Hitton at Mangé
Lamentin in Martinique, about the need to "increase the number of negroes" to develop the properties (1808). File of correspondence concerning the arming of a slave ship by the Bordeaux merchant Dupuch, under the Spanish flag and departing from La Coruña, for the trade of 400 blacks from the African coast to Havana (1816).
Letter to Commander Haragli, in Marseille, notifying him of the sale of his two Abyssinian women to an Armenian (Cairo 1841).
Printed matter: Declaration of the King, concerning the enslaved negroes of the colonies (1738)| Exemptions and privileges granted by the King to
RR. Fathers of Notre-Dame de La Mercy [...] for the Redemption of the
Slaves in the hands of the Turks & Infidels (1739)| Arrest of the
Conseil d'État du Roi, concernant le commerce des Noirs à la côte d'Afrique (1767)|
Poster of a ruling against the Association de commerce maritime (1768) |
Letter to the Bailliages of France, against the society "Les Amis des
Noirs" (1789)|
Decrees of the National Convention abolishing the bounties for the slave trade, and abolishing slavery in the colonies (1793-1794). Cabichui, a satirical periodical illustrated with woodcuts, printed in San Fernando (Paraguay, 1868). Etc.