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2.
A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before 1831]
Call Number:
831.00.00.51+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Negro market in the West Indies [graphic].

3.
A history of the Amistad captives: : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish

Creator:
Barber, Edmund L., publisher
Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Griswold, Benjamin, 1811-1844
Hitchcock & Stafford, printer
United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit)
United States. District Court (Connecticut)
Published / Created:
1840
Call Number:
Cb79 110
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Copyright 1840 by John W. Barber and Edmund L. Barber.
Publisher:
Published by E.L. & J.W. Barber. Hitchcock & Stafford, printers.,
Subject (Topic):
Amer tracts--1840, Slave trade, and Slavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free states
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A history of the Amistad captives: : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York; with biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africans. : Also, an account of the trials had on their case, before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for the district of Connecticut. / Compiled from authentic sources, by John W. Barber, mem. of the Connecticut Hist. Soc.

5.
Account book, 1750 April-1758 December.

Creator:
Austin & Laurens
Published / Created:
1750 Apr-1758 Dec
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 184 (folio)
Image Count:
365
Abstract:
Manuscript account book, in unidentified handwriting, for Austin & Laurens, in Charleston, South Carolina, recording purchases and sales. Includes accounts relating to the sale of slaves.
Description:
Austin & Laurens, merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, engaged in the slave trade, founded by George Austin and Henry Laurens, later joined by George Appleby.
Subject (Name):
Austin & Laurens and Laurens, Henry,--1724-1792
Subject (Topic):
Slave trade
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book, 1750 April-1758 December.

6.
Commission for John Hope Smith, 1816 November 11.

Creator:
Company of Merchants Trading to Africa
Call Number:
OSB MSS FILE 19653
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Topic):
Slave trade and Trading companies
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commission for John Hope Smith, 1816 November 11.

7.
Grito de los africanos contra los europeos, sus opresores, ó sea, Rápida ojeada sobre el comercio

Creator:
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.
Published / Created:
1825
Call Number:
2018 268
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Cries of Africa to the inhabitants of Europe. Spanish and Rápida ojeada sobre el comercio homicida llamado tráfico de negros.
Description:
"Traducido del ingles al francés, y de este al español por Don Agustin de Gímbernat."
Publisher:
José Torner,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa
Subject (Topic):
Slave trade, Slave trade--Africa., and Slavery.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grito de los africanos contra los europeos, sus opresores, ó sea, Rápida ojeada sobre el comercio homicida llamado tráfico de negros / por Tomas Clarkson.

8.
Letters describing life in England, 1790

Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 115
Image Count:
270
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters describing life in England, 1790

9.
Robert Bostock documents concerning the slave trade, 1810-1813

Creator:
Bostock, Robert, 1784-1847
Call Number:
OSB MSS FILE 19662
Image Count:
12
Abstract:
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)
Subject (Topic):
Slave trade, History, and Slave traders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert Bostock documents concerning the slave trade, 1810-1813

10.
Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

Creator:
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835
Published / Created:
1834 December 5-1835 April 6.
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 733
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
113
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

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