Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5643795
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5643795

Publisher

Summary

Three leaves (six pages) from a letter copy book by an anonymous author. The letters to an absentee plantation owner, Mr. Campbell, concern account books, sales of sugar and rum, condition of crops, and the mills. The plantation is on the island of St. Kitts, and a purchase of adjacent land parcels enlarge the owner's sugar cane crops. The writer discusses buying slaves and points out in one paragraph that there are "no Gold Coast slaves to be purchased." Trading connections with Basseterre, Antigua, and St. Vincent and the names of ships and trade companies are also mentioned. One letter fragment is dated 1763 and addressed to Mr. John Aitchison.

Extent

Provenance

• Sold by Michael Brown Rare Books (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Plantations--West Indies, British--18th century
• Slavery--West Indies, British--Early works to 1800
• Sugar trade--West Indies, British--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

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